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INSIGNIA  OF  THE  SOCIETY 


Register  of  Members 


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WITH    THE 


CONSTITUTION   AND   BY-LAWS   AND   AN   ACCOUNT 
OF    ITS    WORK 


BOSTON 

PRINTED    FOR    THE    SOCIETY 

1903 


publication  Committee* 


WALTER    OILMAN    PAGE. 
HENRY    DEXTER    WARREN. 
WILLIS    WHITTEMORE    STOVER. 


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PREFACE. 


In  accordance  with  the  custom  of  the  Society,  a  Register  should 
have  been  pubHshed  in  1901.  Registers  had  been  issued  in  1893, 
1895,  1897,  and  1899,  appearing  every  second  year  after  the  organi- 
zation of  the  Society  in  1891.  When  the  time  arrived  for  the  pubh- 
cation  of  a  Biennial  Register  in  1901,  the  Society  was  engaged  in 
carrying  out  its  plan  for  the  "  Montgomery  Memorial,"  the  most 
important  and  extensive  undertaking  up  to  that  time  entered  upon. 
As  it  was  obviously  necessary  to  curtail  all  expenses  of  a  general 
nature,  in  order  to  accomplish  this  project,  the  Board  of  Managers 
deemed  it  best  to  omit  the  issue  of  a  Register  for  that  year.  A  full 
account  of  the  "  Montgomery  Memorial,"  together  with  all  corre- 
spondence on  that  topic,  will  be  found  in  the  present  volume,  and 
will  explain  fully  the  reasons  for  the  ultimate  abandonment  of  the 
plan. 

The  PubUcation  Committee  have  followed  the  general  arrangement 
of  the  Register  of  1899.  A  complete  Roll  of  Members  from  the 
organization  of  the  Society  to  December  31,  1902,  is  published. 
The  records  included  comprise  those  of  new  members  admitted  since 
the  last  Register,  and  those  supplementary  records  of  members  on 
the  roll  when  the  last  Register  was  published,  which  have  been  filed 
since  that  time.  The  Index  of  Ancestors  contains  all  names  in- 
cluded in  both  sets  of  records. 

As  the  Constitution  of  the  General  Society  and  the  By-Laws  of  the 
Massachusetts  Society  have  been  altered  by  several  amendments 
since  last  printed,  it  has  been  considered  expedient  to  include  in  this 
book  the  text  of  the  same  as  amended  up  to  the  latest  possible  date 
before  going  to  press.     Therefore,  while  the  records  and  data  as  to 


4  J)on^  of  t^t  iScboIutton* 

membership  are  brought  down  only  to  January  i,  1903,  the  Constitu- 
tion and  By-Laws  embody  changes  made  as  late  as  the  February 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Managers. 

The  address  of  Captain  Richmond  Pearson  Hobson,  U.S.N.,  deliv- 
ered before  the  Society  upon  the  occasion  of  its  Eleventh  Annual 
Dinner,  April  19,  1902,  which  aroused  the  interest  and  enthusiasm  of 
his  hearers  to  the  highest  pitch,  is  presented,  not  only  on  account  of 
the  distinguished  services  of  the  speaker  in  the  late  War  with  Spain, 
but  as  exhibiting  the  sentiment  and  spirit  of  the  "  New  South  "  in  the 
utterances  of  one  of  her  most  loyal  sons,  and  as  significant  of  the 
perfect  union  of  thought  and  purpose  which  dominates  every  section 
of  our  Federal  Republic  at  the  dawn  of  the  twentieth  century. 


FLAG  OF  THE  SOCIETY 


CERTIFICATE    OF    INCORPORATION. 


No.  4706. 

C0mmantoealt|}  of  Plassadjusetts. 

i3e  it  knobn,  That  whereas  William  Leverett  Chase,  Frank  Harrison 
Briggs,  Francis  Ellingwood  Abbot,  Walter  Oilman  Page,  Henry  Dexter 
Warren,  Andrew  Robeson,  Winthrop  Wetherbee,  William  Curtis  Ca- 
PELL,  Arthur  Henry  Button,  Gilbert  Hodges,  Theodore  Harold  Clapp, 
Charles  Howard  Bailey,  Jr.,  Eben  Norton  Horsford,  and  Walter 
Kendall  Watkins  have  associated  themselves  with  the  intention  of  forming  a 
corporation  under  the  name  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the 
Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  for  the  purpose  of  perpetuating  the  memory 
of  the  men  who  achieved  American  Independence ;  and  furthering  the  proper 
celebration  of  the  anniversaries  of  the  birthday  of  Washington,  and  of  prominent 
events  connected  with  the  War  of  the  Revolution ;  collecting  and  securing  for 
preservation  the  rolls  and  other  documents  relating  to  that  period;  inspiring  the 
members  of  the  Society  with  the  patriotic  spirit  of  their  forefathers,  and  promot- 
ing the  feeling  of  friendship  among  them,  and  have  complied  with  the  provisions 
of  the  Statutes  of  this  Commonwealth  in  such  case  made  and  provided,  as  appears 
from  the  certificate  of  the  President,  Treasurer,  Secretary,  and  Board  of  Managers 
of  said  corporation,  duly  approved  by  the  Commissioner  of  Corporations,  and  re- 
corded in  this  office  : 

Nob  'QL^trdoxt,  I,  William  M.  Olin,  Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  ©0  I^Evebg  Ccrtifg*  that  said  William  Leverett  Chase,  Frank 
Harrison  Briggs,  Francis  Ellingwood  Abbot,  Walter  Oilman  Page 
Henry  Dexter  Warren,  Andrew  Robeson,  Winthrop  Wetherbee,  Will- 
iam Curtis  Capell,  Arthur  Henry  Dutton,  Oilbert  Hodges,  Theodore 
Harold  Clapp,  Charles  Howard  Bailey,  Jr.,  Eben  Norton  Horsford 
and  Walter  Kendall  Watkins,  their  associates  and  successors,  are  legally 
organized  and  established  as  and  are  hereby  made  an  existing  corporation  under 
the  name  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the  Commonwealth 
of  Massachusetts,  with  the  powers,  rights,  and  privileges,  and  subject  to  the  limi- 
tations, duties,  and  restrictions  which  by  law  appertain  thereto. 

212EttncSS  my  official  signature  hereunto  subscribed,  and 

the  Seal    of    the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts 

PC         -,  hereunto  affixed  this  Ninth  day  of  October,  in  the 

I  oEAL.J 

year  of  our  Lord    One  Thousand    Eight  Hundred 
and  Ninety-one. 

WILLIAM  M.  OLIN, 

Secretary  of  the  C 0771m oriwe alt h. 


THE   GENERAL   SOCIETY 

SONS   OF   THE    REVOLUTION. 

Organized  at  Washington^  D.C.,  April  ip,  i8go. 


OFFICERS. 

ELECTED    AT    WASHINGTON,   D.C.,   APRIL   l8,    I902. 


General  ^xtsititnU 

HON.  JOHN    LEE   CARROLL,  Ellicott  City,  Maryland, 

0/  the  Maryland  Society. 

(general  Utces^PresiUent. 

GARRET   DORSET  WALL   VROOM,  Trenton,  New    Jersey, 

Of  the  New  Jersey  Society. 

.Scconti  General  Utce^^restHent. 

POPE    BARROW,  Savannah,  Georgia, 

Of  the  Georgia  Society. 

0eneral  .Sccrctarjj. 
JAMES  MORTIMER  MONTGOMERY,  No.  102  Front  Street,  New  York, 

Of  the  Neiv   York  Society. 

•^Isststant  (general  .Seeretarg. 

WILLIAM   HALL   HARRIS,  No.  216  St.   Paul  Street,  Baltimore, 

Maryland, 

Of  the  Maryland  Society. 

(general  treasurer. 

RICHARD    McCALL   CADWALADER,  No.   133  S.   i2TH  Street, 

Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 

Of  the  Pennsylvania  Society. 


Assistant  (IKeneral  treasurer. 

HENRY  CABLE,  Betheny,  Missouri, 

Of  the  Missouri  Society. 

(Sentral  Cf}aplatn. 
Rev.  THOMAS   EDWARD  GREEN,  D.D.,    S.T.D.,  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa, 

Of  the  Iowa  Society. 

(Scneral  i^egtstrar. 

WALTER   OILMAN    PAGE,  No.  loi   Tremont  Street,    Boston, 

Massachusetts, 

Of  the  Massachusetts  Society. 

(Kemral  f^igtortan. 

HENRY    WALBRIDGE   DUDLEY,  No.  23  Michigan    Avenue,   Chicago, 

Illinois, 
Of  the  Illinois  Society. 


SONS   OF   THE    REVOLUTION 


Commontoealtl)  of  a^ajSjSatlmsfetts. 

Organized  in  Faneuil  Hall,  October  /,  i8gi. 

Incorporated  under  the  Laivs  of  the  Common^wealth  of  Massachusetts, 

October  p,  i8gi. 


OFFICERS. 

ELECTED    APRIL    19,    19C2. 


ELIAS  JAMES  BLISS,  Brookline,  Mass. 

TTtcr^^rcstticnt. 
RICHARD  HENRY  WINSLOW  DWIGHT,  67  Franklin  Street,  Boston. 

.Sccretarg. 
HENRY  DEXTER  WARREN,  Haddon  Hall,  Boston. 

treasurer.  - 

CHARLES  IRVING  THAYER,  115  High  Street,  Boston. 

i^cgistrar* 
WILLIS  WHITTEMORE  STOVER,  39  Court  Street,  Boston. 

I^istortan. 
WALTER  GILMAN  PAGE,  loi  Tremont  Street,  Boston. 

dijaplain* 
Rev.  ARTHUR  LAWRENCE,  D.D.,  Stockbridge,  Mass. 


iSoarti  of  iWanagcrs. 

WILLIAM  CURTIS   CAPELL.  EDWARD  HALE  SMITH. 

FRANK  HARRISON  BRIGGS.  HARRY  YOUNG. 

DESMOND  FITZGERALD.  EBEN  FRANCIS  THOMPSON. 

DANIEL  MERCHANT  RICHARDSON.  PAUL  DEAN. 

Rev.  EDWARD  HUNTTING  RUDD. 

IBcIegatES  to  tfje  (BtmxRl  ^octetg. 

Rev.  LEONARD  KIP  STORRS,  D.D.        Lieut.-Col.  PHILIP  READE,  U.S.A. 
WALTER  OILMAN  PAGE.  Rev.  EDWARD  HUNTTING  RUDD. 

HENRY  CORMERAIS   FRENCH. 

Alternates. 

Hon.  WILLIAM  FRANKLIN  DRAPER.  Hon.  GEORGE  FRISBIE  HOAR. 
Hon.  JOSIAH  QUINCY.  Rev.  EDWARD  EVERETT  HALE,  D.D. 

Hon.  CHARLES  HERBERT  ALLEN. 


OF   THE 

MASSACHUSETTS   SOCIETY 

From  its  Organization  October  /,  i8gi. 


ELECTHD  RETIRED 

1891 WILLIAM  LEVERETT  CHASE      ....     Died  1895 

1896 CLEMENT    KELSEY    FAY Died  1898 

1898 FRANK   HARRISON  BRIGGS 1900 

1900 Rev.   LEONARD    KIP   STORRS 1902 

1902 ELIAS    JAMES    BLISS 

Uice«Prcstti0nts. 

1891 HAZARD    STEVENS 1892 

1892 EBEN   NORTON    HORSFORD Died  1893 

1893 WILLIAM   FRANKLIN    DRAPER 1894 

1894 CLEMENT   KELSEY    FAY 1896 

1896 GEORGE   SILSBEE    HALE Died  1897 

1897 FRANK    HARRISON    BRIGGS 1898 

1898 WALTER   GILMAN    PAGE 1899 

1899 HENRY,  HERBERT   EDES     ........     1901 

1901 ELIAS    JAMES    BLISS 1902 

1902 R.    HENRY    W.    DWIGHT 

treasurers, 

1891 FRANK    HARRISON    BRIGGS  .     .     .  -.     .     .     .     1894 

1894 ANDREW    ROBESON 1898 

1898 R.    HENRY   W.    DWIGHT 1902 

1902 CHARLES    IRVING   THAYER       

<Sccrctarg. 
1891 HENRY    DEXTER    WARREN 

l^egtstrars. 

1891 WALTER   KENDALL    WATKINS 1896 

1896 JAMES   ATKINS    NOYES 1898 

1898 EDWARD    PARKER   SANDS 1900 

1900 FRANCIS    APTHORP    FOSTER 1901 

1901 WILLIS    WHITTEMORE   STOVER -_ 


I^istorians. 


RETIRED 


1891 FRANCIS    ELLINGWOOD   ABBOT 1902 

1902 WALTER   OILMAN    PAGE 

Cijaplains, 

1892 Rev.   LEONARD    KIP   STORRS,    D.D 1900 

1900 Rev.   ARTHUR  LAWRENCE,    D.D 


38oarlis  of 
1891-92. 
EBEN   NORTON    HORSFORD. 
ANDREW    ROBESON. 
WILLIAM    CURTIS    CAPELL. 
ARTHUR    HENRY    DUTTON. 
WALTER   OILMAN    PAOE. 
WINTHROP    WETHERBEE. 
GILBERT    HODGES. 
THEODORE    HAROLD    CLAPP. 
CHARLES    HOWARD    BAILEY,   Jr. 

1893-94. 
ANDREW    ROBESON. 
WILLLAM   CURTIS    CAPELL. 
WALTER   OILMAN    PAOE. 
WINTHROP    WETHERBEE. 
JOHN    CHESTER   INCHES. 
JOHN    WALTER   BAKER,    U.S.N. 
HENRY    EDDY    COBB. 
JOSEPH  BLANCHARD   AMES. 
SAMUEL   SWETT   GREEN. 


1895-96. 
WILLIAM   CURTIS    CAPELL. 
WALTER   OILMAN    PAOE. 
WILLIAM   EUSTIS   RUSSELL. 
MERIWEATHER    HOOD  GRIFFITH. 
JAMES   ATKINS   NOYES. 
WINTHROP   WETHERBEE. 
FRANK   MERRIAM. 
ARTHUR   BRIGOS    DENNY. 
FREDERICK  BANKER  CARPENTER. 


1892-93. 
ANDREW    ROBESON. 
WILLIAM    CURTIS    CAPELL. 
ARTHUR    HENRY    DUTTON. 
WALTER   OILMAN    PAOE. 
WINTHROP   WETHERBEE. 
GILBERT    HODGES. 
THEODORE   HAROLD    CLAPP. 
CHARLES    HOWARD    BAILEY,    Jr. 
THEODORE  LAWRENCE  POMEROY. 

1894-95. 
ANDREW    ROBESON  (1894). 
WILLIAM    CURTIS   CAPELL. 
WALTER   OILMAN    PAGE. 
JOHN    WALTER   BAKER,    U.S.N. 
JOSEPH    BLANCHARD   AMES. 
WILLIAM   EUSTIS    RUSSELL. 
MARSHALL   KITTREDOE   ABBOTT. 
MERIWEATHER   HOOD   GRIFFITH. 
JAMES   ATKINS   NOYES. 
WINTHROP   WETHERBEE  (1895). 

1896-97. 
FRANK    HARRISON    BRIGOS. 
WALTER   OILMAN    PAOE. 
WILLIAM    CURTIS    CAPELL. 
FREDERICK  BANKER  CARPENTER. 
ARTHUR   BRIGOS    DENNY. 
FRANK   MERRIAM. 
EDWARD   TOBEY    BARKER. 
HOWARD    EATON    HAYDEN. 
FRANCIS   APTHORP  FOSTER. 


1897-98. 
FRANK   HARRISON    BRIGGS. 
WALTER   GILMAN    PAGE. 
WILLIAM    CURTIS   CAPELL. 
FREDERICK  ^BANKER  CARPENTER. 
GEORGE   HATCH    QUINCY. 
FRANK    MERRIAM. 
EDWARD   TOBEY   BARKER. 
HOWARD    EATON   HAYDEN. 
FRANCIS    APTHORP    FOSTER. 


1898-99. 
ANDREW    ROBESON. 
JAMES   ATKINS    NOYES. 
WILLIAM    CURTIS    CAPELL. 
EDWARD  GILMAN    MORSE. 
CHESTER   GUILD. 

HENRY     WINCHESTER      CUNNING- 
HAM. 
EDWARD   TOBEY    BARKER. 
HOWARD    EATON   HAYDEN. 
FRANCIS    APTHORP    FOSTER. 


1899-00. 
WALTER   GILMAN    PAGE. 
JAMES  ATKINS    NOYES. 
EDWARD  TOBEY    BARKER. 
HENRY    WINCHESTER    CUNNING- 
HAM. 
EDWARD   HALE   SMITH. 
GEORGE   SMITH    BURTON. 
LEONARD    FOWLE. 
JOHN    FORD   TYLER. 
ELIAS    JAMES    BLISS. 


1900-01. 
WALTER   GILMAN    PAGE. 
ANDREW    ROBESON. 
JAMES   ATKINS    NOYES. 
EDWARD    HALE   SMITH. 
EDWARD    TOBEY    BARKER. 
HENRY     WINCHESTER     CUNNING- 
HAM. 
JONATHAN    TYLER    STEVENS. 
DESMOND    FITZGERALD. 
ELIAS    JAMES   BLISS. 


1901-02. 
WALTER   GILMAN    PAGE. 
ANDREW    ROBESON. 
JAMES  ATKINS    NOYES. 
EDWARD    HALE    SMITH. 
EDWARD    TOBEY   BARKER. 
EBEN    FRANCIS    THOMPSON. 
HARRY    YOUNG. 
JONATHAN   TYLER   STEVENS. 
DESMOND    FITZGERALD. 


1902-03. 
WILLIAM    CURTIS    CAPELL. 
EDWARD   HALE    SMITH. 
FRANK    HARRISON    BRIGGS. 
HARRY   YOUNG. 
DESMOND    FITZGERALD. 
EBEN    FRANCIS  THOMPSON. 
DANIEL  MERCHANT  RICHARDSON. 
PAUL   DEAN. 
REV.    EDWARD    HUNTTING    RUDD. 


Constitution  anD  TBt'latwjS- 


SEAL  OF  THE  SOCIETY 


Constitution 

OF 

THE  GENERAL  SOCIETY  OF  THE  SONS 
OF  THE  REVOLUTION. 


It  being  evident,  from  the  steady  decline  of  a  proper  celebra- 
tion of  the  national  holidays  of  the  United  States  of  America, 
that  popular  concern  in  the  events  and  men  of  the  War  of  the 
Revolution  is  gradually  declining,  and  that  such  lack  of  interest 
is  attributable,  not  so  much  to  the  lapse  of  time  and  the  rapidly 
increasing  flood  of  immigration  from  foreign  countries  as  to  the 
neglect,  on  the  part  of  descendants  of  Revolutionary  heroes,  to 
perform  their  duty  in  keeping  before  the  public  mind  the  mem- 
ory of  the  services  of  their  ancestors,  and  of  the  times  in  which 
they  lived ;  therefore,  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution 
has  been  instituted  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  the  men  who,  in 
the  military,  naval,  and  civil  service  of  the  Colonies  and  of  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  by  their  acts  or  counsel  achieved  the  indepen- 
dence of  the  country,  and  to  further  the  proper  celebration  of  the 
anniversaries  of  the  birthday  of  Washington,  and  of  prominent 
events  connected  with  the  War  of  the  Revolution ;  to  collect  and 
secure  for  preservation  the  rolls,  records,  and  other  documents 
relating  to  that  period ;  to  inspire  the  members  of  the  Society 
with  the  patriotic  spirit  of  their  forefathers ;  and  to  promote  the 
feeling  of  friendship  among  them. 

The  General  Society  shall  be  divided  into  State  Societies, 
which  shall  meet  annually  on  the  day  appointed  therefor  in  their 
respective  by-laws,  and  oftener  if  found  expedient ;  and  at  such 
annual  meeting  the  reasons  for  the  institution  of  the  Society  shall 
be  considered,  and  the  best  measures  for  carrying  them  into 
effect  adopted. 


16  ^on^  of  tl)e  iSeboIution. 

The  State  Societies,  at  each  annual  meeting,  shall  choose,  by 
a  majority  of  the  votes  present,  a  president,  a  vice-president,  a 
secretary,  a  registrar,  a  treasurer,  a  chaplain,  and  such  other  offi- 
cers as  may  by  them  respectively  be  deemed  necessary,  together 
with  a  board  of  managers  consisting  of  these  officers  and  of  nine 
other  members,  all  of  whom  shall  retain  their  respective  positions 
until  their  successors  are  duly  chosen. 

Each  State  Society  shall  cause  to  be  transmitted  annually,  or 
oftener,  to  the  other  State  Societies  a  circular-letter,  calling 
attention  to  whatever  may  be  thought  worthy  of  observation 
respecting  the  welfare  of  the  Society,  or  of  the  general  union 
of  the  States,  and  giving  information  of  the  officers  chosen 
for  the  year ;  and  copies  of  these  letters  shall  also  be  transmitted 
to  the  General  Secretary,  to  be  preserved  among  the  records  of 
the  General  Society. 

The  State  Societies  shall  regulate  all  matters  respecting  their 
own  affairs,  consistent  with  the  general  good  of  the  Society ; 
judge  of  the  qualification  of  their  members,  or  of  those  proposed 
for  membership,  subject,  however,  to  the  provisions  of  this 
constitution ;  and  expel  any  member  who,  by  conduct  unbe- 
coming a  gentleman  or  a  man  of  honor,  or  by  an  opposition 
to  the  interests  of  the  community  in  general,  or  the  Society 
in  particular,  may  render  himself  unworthy  to  continue  in 
membership. 

In  order  to  form  funds  that  may  be  respectable,  each  mem- 
ber shall  contribute  upon  his  admission  to  the  Society,  and 
annually  thereafter,  such  sums  as  the  by-laws  of  the  respect- 
ive State  Societies  may  require ;  but  any  of  such  State  Socie- 
ties may  provide  for  the  endowment  of  memberships  by  the 
payment  of  proper  sums  in  capitalization,  which  sums  shall  be 
properly  invested  as  a  permanent  fund,  the  income  only  of  which 
shall  be  expended. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  General  Society  shall  be  held  every 
three  years,  and  special  meetings  may  be  held  upon  the  order  of 
the  general  president,  or  upon  the  request  of  two  of  the  State 
Societies,  and  such  meetings  shall  consist  of  the  general  officers, 


Constitution.  17 

and  a  representation  not  exceeding  five  deputies  from  each  State 
Society ;  and  the  necessary  expenses  of  such  meeting  shall  be 
borne  by  the  State  Societies. 

At  the  regular  meeting  a  general  president,  vice-president, 
secretary,  assistant  secretary,  treasurer,  and  chaplain  shall  be 
chosen  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  present,  to  serve  until  the  next 
regular  general  meeting,  or  until  their  successors  are  duly 
chosen. 

At  each  general  meeting  the  circular-letters  which  have  been 
transmitted  by  the  several  State  Societies  shall  be  considered, 
and  all  measures  taken  which  shall  conduce  to  the  general  wel- 
fare of  the  Society. 

The  General  Society  shall  have  power,  at  any  meeting,  to 
admit  State  Societies  thereto,  and  to  entertain  and  determine  all 
questions  affecting  the  qualification  for  membership  in  or  the 
welfare  of  any  State  Society  as  may  by  proper  memorial  be  pre- 
sented by  such  State  Society  for  consideration. 

Any  male  person  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  of  good 
character,  and  a  descendant  of  one  who,  as  a  military,  naval,  or 
marine  officer,  soldier,  sailor,  or  marine,  in  actual  service  under 
the  authority  of  any  of  the  thirteen  Colonies  or  States,  or  of  the 
Continental  Congress,  and  remaining  always  loyal  to  such 
authority,  or  a  descendant  of  one  who  signed  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  or  of  one  who,  as  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress  or  of  the  Congress  of  any  of  the  Colonies  or  States,  or 
as  an  official  appointed  by  or  under  the  authority  of  any  such 
legislative  bodies,  actually  assisted  in  the  establishment  of 
American  Independence  by  services  rendered  during  the  War  of 
the  Revolution,  becoming  thereby  liable  to  conviction  of  treason 
against  the  government  of  Great  Britain,  but  remaining  always 
loyal  to  the  authority  of  the  Colonies  or  States,  shall  be  eligible 
to  membership  in  the  Society. 

The  secretary  of  each  State  Society  shall  transmit  to  the 
General  Secretary  a  list  of  the  members  thereof,  together  with 
the  names  and  official  designations  of  those  from  whom  such 
members  derive  claim  to  membership ;  and  thereafter,  upon  the 


18  ^on^  of  tfte  Jfiebolution* 

admission  of  members  in  each  State  Society,  the  secretary 
thereof  shall  transmit  to  the  General  Secretary  information 
respecting  such  members  similar  to  that  herein  required. 

The  Society  shall  have  insignia,  which  shall  be  a  badge  sus- 
pended from  a  ribbon  by  a  ring  of  gold  ;  the  badge  to  be  ellip- 
tical in  form,  with  escalloped  edges,  one  and  one-quarter  inches 
in  length,  and  one  and  one-eighth  inches  in  width ;  the  whole 
surmounted  by  a  gold  eagle,  with  wings  displayed,  inverted.  On 
the  obverse  side  a  medallion  of  gold  in  the  centre,  elliptical  in 
form,  bearing  on  its  face  the  figure  of  a  soldier  in  Continental 
uniform  with  musket  slung;  beneath,  the  figures  1775  ;  the 
medallion  surrounded  by  thirteen  raised  gold  stars  of  five  points 
each  upon  a  border  of  dark  blue  enamel.  On  the  reverse  side, 
in  the  centre,  a  medallion  corresponding  in  form  to  that  on  the 
obverse,  and,  also  in  gold,  bearing  on  its  face  the  Houdon  por- 
trait of  Washington  in  bas-reHef,  encircled  by  the  legend  ''  Sons 
of  the  Revolution";  beneath,  the  figures  1883;  and  upon  the 
reverse  of  the  eagle  the  number  of  the  badge  to  be  engraved ; 
the  medallion  to  be  surrounded  by  a  plain  gold  border  conform- 
ing in  dimensions  to  the  obverse.  The  ribbon  shall  be  dark  blue, 
ribbed  and  watered,  edged  with  buff,  one  and  one-half  inches 
wide,  and  one  and  one-half  inches  in  displayed  length. 

The  insignia  of  the  Society  shall  be  worn  by  the  members  on 
all  occasions  when  they  assemble  as  such  for  any  stated  purpose 
or  celebration,  and  may  be  worn  on  any  occasions  of  ceremony. 
It  shall  be  carried  conspicuously  on  the  left  breast,  but  members 
who  are  or  have  been  officers  of  the  Society  may  wear  the 
insignia  suspended  from  the  ribbon  around  the  neck. 

On  occasions  other  than  the  meetings  for  any  stated  purpose 
or  celebration,  members  may  wear  a  rosette  of  the  prescribed 
ribbon  and  pattern,  which  shall  not  exceed  fifteen  millimetres  in 
diameter,  in  the  upper  button-hole  of  the  left  lapel  of  the  coat. 

The  custodian  of  the  insignia  shall  be  the  General  Secretary, 
who  shall  issue  them  to  members  of  the  Society  under  such 
proper  rules  as  may  be  formulated  by  the  General  Society ;  and 
he  shall  keep  a  register  of  such  issues  wherein  each  insignia 
issued  may  be  identified  by  the  number  thereof. 


Constitution.  19 

The  seal  of  the  Society  shall  be  one  and  seven-eighths  inches 
in  diameter,  and  shall  consist  of  the  figure  of  a  Minuteman  in 
Continental  uniform,  standing  on  a  ladder  leading  to  a  belfry  ;  in 
his  left  hand  he  holds  a  musket  and  an  olive  branch,  whilst  in  his 
right  grasps  a  bell-rope ;  above  the  cracked  Liberty  Bell,  issuing 
therefrom  a  ribbon  bearing  the  motto  of  the  Society,  Exegi  mon- 
umentum  aere  perennius  ;  across  the  top  of  the  ladder,  on  a  rib- 
bon, the  figures  1776;  and  on  the  left  of  the  Minuteman,  and 
also  on  a  ribbon,  the  figures  1883,  the  year  of  the  formation  of 
the  Society ;  the  whole  encircled  by  a  band  three-eighths  of  one 
inch  wide  ;  thereon  at  the  top  thirteen  stars  of  five  points  each  ; 
at  the  bottom  the  name  of  the  General  Society  or  of  the  State 
Society  to  which  the  seal  belongs. 


AMENDMENT  ADOPTED  AT  THE   MEETING    HELD  IN  TRENTON, 

NEW  JERSEY,  23  APRIL,  1892. 

The  State  Societies,  at  every  Annual  Meeting,  shall  choose  a 
President,  a  Vice-President,  a  Secretary,  a  Registrar,  a  Treas- 
urer, a  Chaplain,  and  such  other  officers  as  may  by  them  respect- 
ively be  deemed  necessary,  and  a  Board  of  Managers  to  consist 
of  such  officers,  and  other  members,  as  may  be  provided  by  their 
respective  Constitutions  and  By-Laws. 


AMENDMENT   ADOPTED    AT   THE    MEETING    HELD    IN  SAVAN- 
NAH, GEORGIA,  20  APRIL,  1896. 

At  the  regular  meeting  a  General  President,  General  Vice- 
President,  General  Second  Vice-President,  Secretary,  Assistant 
Secretary,  Treasurer,  Assistant  Treasurer,  Registrar,  Historian, 
and  Chaplain  shall  be  chosen  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  present, 
to  serve  until  the  next  regular  general  meeting,  or  until  their 
successors  are  duly  chosen. 


20  ^m^  of  tl)e  iHetooIution. 


AMENDMENT  ADOPTED  AT  THE  MEETING  HELD  IN  DENVER, 
COLORADO,  19  APRIL,  1899,  AND  SUBSEQUENTLY  RATIFIED 
BY  THE  SEVERAL  STATE  SOCIETIES,  EXCEPT  THOSE  OF 
NEW  JERSEY,  GEORGIA,  AND  WEST  VIRGINIA  (FAVORABLE 
ACTION  BY  WHICH  IS  ANTICIPATED). 

Strike  out  from  the  seventh  paragraph  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  General  Society  the  words  of  the  General  Officei^s  a7id  a  repre- 
sentation not  exceeding  five  deputies  froin  each  State  Society^  and 
insert  the  following :  of  two  delegates  from  each  State  Society 
and  ofie  additional  delegate  for  every  one  Juindred  members  or 
major  fraction  tJiefeof ;  and  on  all  qiiestions  arising  at  meetings  of 
the  General  Society  each  delegate  there  present  shall  be  ejititled 
to  one  votCy  and  no  votes  shall  be  taken  by  States. 


BY-LAWS  OF  THE  SOCIETY  OF  THE  SONS 
OF  THE  REVOLUTION 

IN    THE 

COMMONWEALTH    OF    MASSACHUSETTS. 


ARTICLE  L 

Name    of  Society. 

The  Society  shall  be  known  by  the  name,  style,  and  title  of 
"Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the  Common- 
wealth OF  Massachusetts." 

ARTICLE  II. 

Membership. 

Any  male  person  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  shall  be 
eligible  to  membership  in  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  who  is  line- 
ally descended  from  an  ancestor,  as  the  propositus,  who,  either 
as  a  military,  naval,  or  marine  officer,  soldier,  sailor,  or  marine, 
or  official  in  the  service  of  any  one  of  the  thirteen  original  Colo- 
nies or  States,  or  of  the  National  Government,  representing  or 
composed  of  those  Colonies  or  States,  assisted  in  establishing 
American  Independence  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  be- 
tween the  nineteenth  day  of  April,  1775,  when  hostilities  com- 
menced, and  the  nineteenth  day  of  April,  1783,  when  they  were 
ordered  to  cease ; 

Provided^  That,  when  the  claim  of  eligibility  is  based  on  the 
services  of  an  ancestor  in  the  "  Minutemen "  or  "Militia,"  it 
must  be  satisfactorily  shown  that  such  ancestor  was  actually 
called  into  the  service  of  the  State  or  United  States,  and  per- 
formed garrison  or  field  duty  ;  and 


22  ^on0  of  tl)e  iliebolution. 

Troinded,  further,  That,  when  the  claim  of  ehgibihty  is  based 
on  the  service  of  an  ancestor  as  a  "  sailor  "  or  "  marine,"  it  must 
in  like  manner  be  shown  that  such  service  was  other  than  shore 
duty,  and  regularly  performed  in  the  Continental  navy,  or  the 
navy  of  one  of  the  original  thirteen  States,  or  on  an  armed  ves- 
sel, other  than  a  merchant  ship,  which  sailed  under  letters  of 
marque  and  reprisal,  and  that  such  ancestor  of  the  applicant  was 
duly  enrolled  in  the  ship's  company,  either  as  an  officer,  or  sea- 
man, or  otherwise  than  as  a  passenger ;  and 

Provided,  further,  That,  when  the  claim  of  eligibility  is  based 
on  the  service  of  an  ancestor  as  an  "official,"  such  service  must 
have  been  performed  in  the  civil  service  of  the  United  States,  or 
of  one  of  the  thirteen  original  States,  and  must  have  been  suf- 
ficiently important  in  character  to  have  rendered  the  official 
specially  liable  to  arrest  and  imprisonment,  the  same  as  a  com- 
batant, if  captured  by  the  enemy,  as  well  as  liable  to  conviction 
of  treason  against  the  Government  of  Great  Britain. 

Service  in  the  ordinary  duties  of  a  civil  office,  the  performance 
of  which  did  not  particularly  and  effectively  aid  the  American 
cause,  shall  not  constitute  eligibility. 

In  the  construction  of  this  article  the  Volunteer  Aides-de- 
Camp  of  General  Officers  in  Continental  service,  who  were  duly 
announced  as  such,  and  who  actually  served  in  the  field  during 
a  campaign,  shall  be  comprehended  as  having  performed  qualify- 
ing service. 

The  civil  officials  and  military  forces  of  the  State  of  Vermont 
during  the  War  of  the  Revolution  shall  also  be  comprehended 
in  the  same  manner  as  if  they  had  belonged  to  one  of  the  thir- 
teen original  States. 

No  service  of  an  ancestor  shall  be  deemed  as  qualifying  service 
for  membership  in  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  where  such  ances- 
tor, after  assisting  in  the  cause  of  American  Independence,  shall 
have  subsequently  either  adhered  to  the  enemy,  or  failed  to 
maintain  an  honorable  record  throughout  the  War  of  the  Revo- 
lution. 


ARTICLE    III. 

Admission  of  Members. 

No  person  shall  be  admitted  to  membership  unless  he  shall 
have  first  made  written  application  therefor,  approved  by  two 
members  over  their  signature. 

Members  shall  be  elected  as  follows  :  Candidates  shall  send 
their  respective  applications  and  documents,  or  other  proofs  of 
qualification  for  membership,  through  the  Secretary  to  the  Board 
of  Managers,  which  is  authorized  to  judge  of  the  merits  of  an 
an  application  in  such  manner  as  it  may  deem  best.  Upon  a 
favorable  decision  of  said  Board,  and  upon  payment  of  the  in- 
itiation fee  and  dues,  applicants  shall  thereupon  become  mem- 
bers of  the  Society. 

The  President  shall  appoint  a  Committee  on  Admissions,  con- 
sisting of  three  members,  one  of  whom  shall  be  the  Secretary  of 
the  Society.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  committee  to  investi- 
gate all  facts  set  forth  in  each  application  for  membership  and 
inquire  into  the  general  character  and  reputation  of  the  applicant. 
The  committee  shall  report  its  findings  and  recommendations  to 
the  Board  of  Managers  at  its  next  stated  or  special  meeting,  un- 
less further  time  is  allowed  for  cause  shown.  Upon  receipt  of 
such  report  the  application  shall  be  laid  on  the  table  until  the 
next  stated  or  special  meeting  of  the  Board,  when  action  shall  be 
taken  on  the  question  of  the  admission  or  rejection  of  the  appli- 
cant. If,  on  a  count  of  the  ballots  deposited,  it  shall  appear  that 
two  or  more  are  for  rejection,  the  application  shall  be  declared 
rejected. 

ARTICLE   IV. 

Initiation  Fees,   Dues,  Etc. 

The  initiation  fee  shall  be  five  {5)  dollars;  the  annual  dues, 
five  (5)  dollars  ;  provided,  that  any  member  who  shall  have  been 
elected  during  the  last  three  months  of  the  fiscal  year  shall  not 
be  required  to  pay  the  annual  dues  for  the  current  fiscal  year. 


24  ^on^  of  tJ)e  ilebolution^ 

The  payment  at  one  time  of  fifty  (50)  dollars  shall  constitute  a 
life  membership.  The  payment  at  one  time  of  one  hundred  (100) 
dollars  shall  constitute  a  perpetual  or  endowed  membership ;  and, 
upon  the  death  of  the  member  so  paying,  the  membership  shall 
be  held  by  his  eldest  son,  or  such  other  descendant  from  the  an- 
cestor from  whom  he  claims  as  he  may  nominate.  In  failure  of 
such  nomination  having  been  made,  the  Society  may  decide 
which  one  of  the  descendants  shall  hold  the  membership : 
provided  always,  that  the  Society  reserves  to  itself  the  priv- 
ilege of  rejecting  any  nomination  that  may  not  be  accept- 
able to  it.  All  those  holding  life  or  endowed  memberships 
shall  be  exempt  from  the  payment  of  the  initiation  fee  and 
annual  dues. 

The  fiscal  year  shall  begin  on  the  first  day  of  January 
and  close  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  December  in  each  calen- 
dar year. 

Upon  payment  of  initiation  fee  and  dues  one  rosette  shall  be 
given  to  each  new  member  without  charge. 

Any  member  of  another  State  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  except  a  fife  or  endowed  member,  who  is  trans- 
ferred to  this  Society,  shall  be  exempted  from  payment  of 
initiation  fee. 

ARTICLE   V. 

Annual  Meetings. 

The  Society  shall  hold  an  Annual  Meeting  on  the  seventeenth 
day  of  March,  at  which  there  shall  be  a  general  election  of  officers 
by  ballot.  If  said  date  shall  fall  on  Sunday,  the  meeting  shall  be 
held  the  following  day.  At  such  election  a  majority  of  the  votes 
cast  for  each  office  shall  determine  a  choice  therefor.  Special 
meetings  shall  be  held  by  direction  of  the  Board  of  Managers  or 
upon  the  written  request  of  ten  members  of  the  Society.  At  all 
meetings  of  the  Society  twenty-five  members  shall  constitute  a 
quorum. 

After  the  Annual  Meeting  a  dinner  shall  be  served,  the  expense 
of  which  shall  be  paid  for  from  the  funds  of  the  Society. 


ARTICLE   VI. 

Officers. 

The  officers  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  shall 
be  a  President,  a  Vice-President,  a  Secretary,  a  Treasurer,  a 
Registrar,  an  Historian,  a  Chaplain,  and  a  Board  of  Managers, 
consisting  of  the  above-named  officers,  ex  officio,  and  nine  others. 
In  the  discretion  of  the  Board  of  Managers  there  may  also  be  an 
Assistant  Secretary,  who  shall  be  appointed  by  them  to  serve 
for  such  a  period,  not  exceeding  the  current  term,  as  they  shall 
deem  expedient. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

President. 

The  President,  or,  in  his  absence,  the  Vice-President,  or,  in 
his  absence,  a  chairman  pro  tempore,  shall  preside  at  all  meet- 
ings of  the  Society  and  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  and  shall 
execute  the  usual  functions  of  a  presiding  officer,  under  general 
parliamentary  rules,  subject  to  an  appeal  to  the  Society,  in 
proper  cases  under  those  rules.  The  President  shall  be,  ex 
officio,  a  member  of  all  committees  other  than  the  Committee  on 
Nominations.  He  shall  have  power  to  convene  the  Board  of 
Managers,  and  appoint  the  place  of  such  meeting  when  called 
by  him. 

He  shall  also  perform  such  other  representative  duties  on 
behalf  of  the  Society,  either  personally  or  by  correspondence,  as 
it  or  the  Board  of  Managers  may  find  desirable  or  necessary,  or 
as  customarily  appertain  to  his  office ;  and  he  shall  enforce  a 
strict  observance  of  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the 
Society. 

In  case  of  his  decease,  resignation,  neglect  to  serve,  or  ina- 
bility from  any  cause  to  act  as  President,  the  duties  of  the  office 
shall  devolve  on  the  Vice-President,  until  the  vacancy  caused  by 
such  decease,  resignation,  or  neglect  to  serve,  shall  be  filled, 
or  until  the  inability  shall  cease. 


26  ^on^  of  tf)e  iSebolution. 

ARTICLE  VIII. 

Secretary. 

The  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  general  correspondence  of 
the  Society,  and  keep  a  record  thereof.  He  shall  notify  all 
qualified  and  accepted  candidates  of  their  admission,  and  perform 
such  other  duties  as  the  Society,  or  Board  of  Managers,  or  his 
office,  may  require  of  him.  He  shall  have  charge  of  the  seal, 
By-Laws,  historical  and  other  documents  and  records  of  the 
Society  other  than  those  required  to  be  deposited  with  the  Regis- 
trar and  Historian,  and  shall  affix  the  seal  to  all  properly  authen- 
ticated certificates  of  membership,  and  transmit  the  same  with- 
out delay  to  the  member  for  whom  it  is  issued,  or  to  his  proper 
representative.  He,  together  with  the  presiding  officer,  shall 
certify  all  acts  of  the  Society,  and  in  proper  cases  authenticate 
them  under  seal.  He  shall  have  charge  of  all  printing  and  pub- 
lications directed  by  the  Society  or  by  the  Board  of  Managers. 
He  shall  give  due  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  all  meetings  of 
the  Society  and  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  and  shall  attend  the 
same.  He  shall  keep  fair  and  accurate  records  of  all  the  pro- 
ceedings and  orders  of  the  Society  and  of  the  Board  of  Managers, 
and  shall  give  notice  to  the  several  officers  of  all  votes,  orders, 
resolves,  and  proceedings  of  the  Society  or  the  Board  of  Mana- 
gers, affecting  them  or  appertaining  to  their  respective  duties ; 
and  at  the  Annual  Meeting,  and  oftener,  if  required,  shall  report 
to  the  Society  the  names  of  those  candidates  who  have  been 
admitted  to  membership,  and  also  the  names  of  those  members 
whose  resignations  or  voluntary  withdrawals  have  been  con- 
sented to  and  accepted,  and  also  the  names  of  those  members 
who  have  been  expelled,  or  dropped  for  non-payment  of  dues, 
or  who  have  been  received  or  dropped  from  the  roll  by  transfer 
since  the  last  report. 

Whenever  there  is  an  Assistant  Secretary,  it  shall  be  his 
duty  to  assist  the  Secretary  in  the  performance  of  the  foregoing 
duties  to  such  an  extent  and  in  such  a  manner  as  the  latter  may 
direct ;  and,  in  the  case  of  the  absence  of  the  Secretary  from  any 


25p:^a:ato^.  27 

meeting  of  the  Society  or  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  his  duties 
at  such  meeting  shall  be  performed  by  the  Assistant  Secretary. 
In  case  of  the  decease,  resignation,  neglect  to  serve,  or  inability 
from  any  cause  to  act,  of  the  Secretary,  the  duties  of  the  office 
shall  devolve  on  the  Assistant  Secretary,  who  shall  perform  all 
the  acts  required  by  this  article  until  the  vacancy  is  filled,  or  the 
inability  shall  cease. 

In  the  absence  from  any  meeting  of  the  Society  or  Board  of 
Managers  of  both  the  Secretary  and  Assistant  Secretary,  a  Sec- 
retary/r^  tempore  shall  be  chosen. 

ARTICLE  IX. 

Treasurer. 

The  Treasurer  shall  collect  and  keep  the  funds  and  securities 
of  the  Society.  Out  of  these  funds  he  shall  pay  such  sums  only 
as  may  be  ordered  by  the  Society  or  by  the  Board  of  Managers, 
and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  the  Society,  or  Board  of 
Managers,  or  his  office,  may  require  of  him.  He  shall  keep  a 
true  account  of  his  receipts  and  payments,  and  at  each  Annual 
Meeting  render  the  same  to  the  Society,  with  a  full  statement  of 
the  financial  condition  of  the  Society,  when  a  committee  shall  be 
appointed  to  audit  his  accounts. 

ARTICLE  X. 

Registrar. 

The  Registrar  shall  have  possession  of  all  documents  pertain- 
ing to  the  descent  of  members  of  the  Society.  He  shall  also 
keep  an  accurate  Register  of  Members  of  the  Society. 

ARTICLE  XI. 

Historian. 

The  Historian  shall  keep  a  detailed  record  of  all  the  historical 
and  commemorative  celebrations  of  the  Society ;  and  he  shall 


28  ^on^  of  tlje  Ittebolution* 

edit  and  prepare  for  publication  such  historical  addresses,  essays, 
papers,  and  other  documents  of  an  historical  character,  other 
than  a  Register  of  Members,  as  the  Secretary  may  be  required 
to  publish ;  and  at  every  Annual  Meeting,  if  there  shall  be  a 
necrological  list  for  the  year  then  closing,  he  shall  submit  the 
same,  with  carefully  prepared  biographies  of  the  deceased  mem- 
bers. 

ARTICLE  XII. 

Chaplain. 

The  Chaplain  shall  perform  such  duties  as  ordinarily  appertain 
to  such  office. 

ARTICLE  XIIL 

Board  of  Managers. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  judge  of  the  qualifications  of 
every  candidate  who  shall  make  proper  application  for  admission 
to  the  Society,  and  shall  have  power  to  admit  him  to  member- 
ship therein,  if  found  eligible  under  the  Constitution  of  this  So- 
ciety.    Two  negative  votes  shall  be  a  rejection  of  the  applicant. 

They  may,  through  the  Secretary,  call  special  meetings  of  the 
Society  at  such  times  as  they  may  see  fit ;  and  they  may  arrange 
for  commemorative  celebrations  by  the  Society. 

They  shall  recommend  plans  to  the  Society  for  promoting  its 
purposes,  and,  when  practicable,  may  digest  and  prepare  business 
for  its  meetings,  and  shall  supervise  all  publications  issued  in  its 
name,  and  decide  whether  copies  of  records  or  other  documents 
or  papers  may  be  furnished  on  request  of  any  party  in  cases  not 
pertaining  directly  to  the  business  of  the  Society  and  the  proper 
conduct  of  its  affairs. 

They  shall  generally  superintend  the  interests  and  shall  have 
the  control  and  management  of  the  affairs  and  funds  of  the  So- 
ciety, but  shall  not  expend  at  any  one  time  a  sum  to  exceed 
^500,  without  the  consent  of  the  Society.  They  shall  also  per- 
form such  duties  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Constitution  and 


25p?3tato3S.  29 

By-Laws  or  required  by  any  standing  rule  or  resolve  of  the  So- 
ciety :  provided,  however,  that  they  shall  at  no  time  be  required 
to  take  any  action  nor  contract  any  debt  for  which  they  shall  be 
jointly  or  severally  liable.  They  shall  be  competent  to  consent 
to  and  accept  the  resignation  or  voluntary  withdrawal  from  mem- 
bership of  any  enrolled  member  of  the  Society. 

They  may  require  the  attendance  of  any  member  of  the  So- 
ciety, or  any  official  or  committee  thereof,  at  any  meeting,  for 
consultation  and  advice. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  meet  as  often  as  they  may 
desire,  or  at  the  call  of  the  President,  or  upon  the  written  re- 
quest of  any  three  members  of  the  same  addressed  to  the  Sec- 
retary. 

Five  of  the  Board  of  Managers  shall  be  a  quorum  for  the  trans- 
action of  business. 

At  every  Annual  Meeting  they  shall  submit  to  the  Society  a 
general  report  of  their  proceedings  during  the  year  then  closing, 
and  at  such  other  time  as  may  be  required  by  the  Society. 

ARTICLE  XIV. 

Expulsion  or  Suspension. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  have  power  to  expel  any  enrolled 
member  of  this  Society  who,  by  a  conduct  inconsistent  with  a 
gentleman  and  a  man  of  honor,  or  by  an  opposition  to  the  inter- 
ests of  the  community  in  general  or  of  this  Society  in  particular, 
may  render  himself  unworthy  to  continue  a  member,  or  who  shall 
persistently  transgress,  or,  without  good  excuse,  wilfully  neglect 
or  fail  in  the  performance  of  any  obligation  enjoined  by  the  Con- 
stitution or  By-Laws  or  any  standing  rule  of  this  Society :  pro- 
vided, that  such  member  shall  have  received  at  least  ten  days' 
notice  of  the  complaint  preferred  against  him,  and  of  the  time 
and  place  for  hearing  the  same,  and  have  been  thereby  afforded 
an  opportunity  to  be  heard  in  person. 

Whenever  the  cause  of  expulsion  shall  not  have  involved  tur- 
pitude nor  moral  unworthiness,  any  member  thus  expelled  may. 


30  ^on^  of  tl)e  iHebolution. 

upon  the  unanimous  recommendation  of  the  Board  of  Managers, 
but  not  otherwise,  be  restored  to  membership  by  the  Society  at 
any  meeting. 

The  Board  of  Managers  shall  also  have  power  to  drop  from 
the  roll  the  name  of  any  enrolled  member  of  the  Society  who 
shall  be  at  least  two  years  in  arrears  in  the  payment  of  dues,  and 
who,  on  notice  to  pay  the  same,  shall  fail  and  neglect  to  do  so 
within  ten  days  thereafter,  and,  upon  being  thus  dropped,  his 
membership  shall  cease  and  determine  ;  but  he  may  be  restored 
to  membership  at  any  time  by  the  Board  of  Managers  on  his  ap- 
plication therefor,  and  upon  his  payment  of  all  such  arrears  and 
of  the  annual  dues  from  the  date  when  he  was  dropped  to  the 
date  of  his  restoration. 

The  Board  of  Managers  may  also  suspend  any  officer  from  the 
performance  of  his  duties  for  cause,  which  proceeding  must  be 
reported  to  the  Society  and  acted  upon  by  it  within  thirty  days, 
either  by  rescission  or  removal  of  the  suspended  officer  from 
office,  or  otherwise,  the  suspension  shall  cease. 

ARTICLE    XV. 

Vacancies  and  Terms  of  Office. 

Whenever  an  officer  of  this  Society  shall  die,  resign,  or  neg- 
lect to  serve,  or  be  suspended,  or  be  unable  to  properly  perform 
the  duties  of  his  office,  by  reason  of  absence,  sickness,  or  other 
cause,  and  whenever  an  office  shall  be  vacant,  which  the  Society 
shall  not  have  filled  by  an  election,  the  Board  of  Managers  shall 
have  power  to  appoint  a  member  to  such  office  pro  tempore^  who 
shall  act  in  such  capacity  until  the  Society  shall  elect  a  member 
to  the  vacant  office,  or  until  the  inability  due  to  suspension, 
absence,  sickness,  or  other  cause,  shall  cease  :  provided,  how- 
ever, that  the  office  of  President  or  Secretary  shall  not  thus  be 
filled  by  the  Board  of  Managers  when  there  shall  be  a  Vice- 
President  or  Assistant  Secretary  to  enter  upon  the  duties  of 
those  offices  respectively. 

In  like  manner  the  Board  of  Managers  may  supply  vacancies 


among  its  members  under  the  same  conditions  and  limitations  ; 
and,  in  case  any  member  thereof,  other  than  an  officer,  shall  be 
absent  from  three  consecutive  meetings  of  the  same,  his  place 
therein  may  be  declared  vacant  by  the  Board  of  Managers,  and 
filled  by  an  appointment  which  shall  continue  in  full  effect  until 
the  Society  shall  elect  a  successor. 

Subject  to  these  provisions,  all  officers  of  the  Society  and  the 
members  of  the  Board  of  Managers  shall,  from  the  time  of  their 
election  or  appointment,  continue  in  their  respective  offices  until 
the  next  Annual  Meeting,  and  until  their  respective  successors 
shall  be  duly  chosen. 

ARTICLE    XVI. 

Nominating  Committee. 

The  President  shall,  at  least  sixty  days  prior  to  every  Annual 
Meeting,  appoint  a  committee  of  nine  members  from  among 
those  longest  enrolled,  who  may  consent  to  serve,  exclusive  of 
officers  or  members  of  the  Board  of  Managers  ;  and  their  report 
shall  propose  the  names  of  candidates  for  the  various  offices. 


ARTICLE    XVII. 

Amendments. 

No  amendment  to  these  By-Laws  shall  be  made,  except  upon 
the  unanimous  consent  of  a  quorum  of  the  Board  of  Managers, 
or  of  two-thirds  of  a  quorum  of  the  Society,  present  at  a  regu- 
larly called  meeting. 


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1415294 

moll  of  a^embcrsii^ip. 
1891-1903. 


ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

189 1.  ABBOT,  EDWARD    STANLEY,  M.D 720 

1892.  ABBOT,  EDWIN    HALE  (Life    Member)  ....   1457 

1891.  ABBOT,    FRANCIS    ELLINGWOOD,    Ph.D.    (Life 

Member) 659 

1892.  ABBOT,  WILLIAM    FITZHALE 897 

1893.  ABBOTT,    MARSHALL    KITTREDGE    (died    Au- 

gust 25,  1899) 1222 

1892.  ALDEN,  CHARLES    HENRY,  Jr 678 

1893.  ALDRICH,  CHARLES  FROST  (resigned  Septem- 

ber 29,  1898) 1217 

1893.     ALDRICH,  TALBOT   BAILEY  (resigned  January 

3,  1898) 1218 

1892.  ALLEN,  CHARLES    HERBERT 991 

1893.  ALVORD,    RALPH     FLYNT     (resigned    January 

18,  1901) 
1896.     AMEE,  ALBERT   FRANCIS 
189 1.     AMES,  JOSEPH    BLANCHARD 744 

1891.  AMES,  OLIVER   (died  October  22,  1895)      .     .     .     995 
1895.     ANDREW,  GEORGE    CLAPP 

1900.     APPLETON,  FRANCIS    HENRY 2707 

1894.  ASHLEY,  HENRY   WOODRUFF 
1902.     AYRES,  ISAAC    HULL 

1892.  BABSON,     ROBERT     TILLINGHAST     (resigned 

December  31,  1902) 
1900.     BACON,  CHARLES   JENKINS 
1900.     BACON,  HENRY 


36  ^on^  of  tt)e  !5ebolution. 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1892.     BAILEY,  CHARLES    HOWARD 

189 1.  BAILEY,  CHARLES    HOWARD,  Jr 686 

1892.  BAKER,    GEORGE   TAYLOR   (resigned    May    21, 

1897) 837 

1892.     BAKER,  JOHN  WALTER,  Passed  Assistant  Sur- 
geon, U.S.N,  (resigned  January  20,  1896)  .     .     841 
1892.     BANCHOR,    FRANKLIN 

1892.  BARKER,  EDWARD    TOBEY       895 

1902.     BARKER,  MERLE   TAFT 

1893.  BARKER,  ORVILLE   ANSON 1379 

1901.     BARKER,    RALPH    EDMONDS 

1895.  BARNES,    BENJAMIN    FRANKLIN    (Membership 

ceased  December  13,  1899) 

1897.  BARNES,  FREDERIC    PARKER 

1893.     BARNES,  LEWIS   ALTON  (died  March  21,  1896) 

1898.  BARTLETT,  DAVID    DANA 

1896.  BARTLETT,    GEORGE    (resigned    December   31, 

1902) 

1892.  BARTLETT,  JOHN 1070 

1893.  BATES,  WILLIAM    MOORES        1180 

1895.  BEAUMONT,  WILLIAM  SHEPHERD,  M.D.  (died 

January  7,  1897) 

1896.  BECK,  JOHN    BUSH 

1895.     BEEBE,  JUNIUS   (resigned  December  31,  190 1) 

1892.  BILLINGS,  GEORGE   BARTLETT 1376 

1895.     BLACKMAN,  ARTHUR  WRIGHT  (resigned  May 

15,  1901) 
1895.     BLISS,  ELIAS   JAMES 1934 

1893.  BLISS,   HENRY   WARREN 

1895.     BLODGET,  WILLIAM 1005 

1895.     BOSSON,  ALBERT    DAVIS 
1893.     BOUTWELL,  FRANCIS    MARION 
1893.     BRADFORD,     HAROLD     STANDISH     (resigned 
January  5,  1899) 


MtAl  of  ^txnbtt^UV*  37 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1894.  BREMER,  SAMUEL    PARKER 1559 

189 1.     BRIGGS,  FRANK  HARRISON 648 

1891.  BROOKS,  PHILLIPS,  Right  Reverend,  D.D.  (died 

January  23,  1893) 

1893.  BROOKS,  WILLIAM   ALLEN,  Jr.,  M.D.  (resigned 

January  18,  1901) 

1895.  BROWN,  GEORGE   FRANKLIN,  Jr. 

1892.  BROWN,    GEORGE    WILLIS    (resigned    May    21, 

1897) 

1895.  BROWNE,    EDWARD    INGERSOLL    (Life    Mem- 

ber) (died  September  15,  1901) 

1897.  BRUERTON,  JAMES 

1894.  BULLARD,    GARDNER    CUTTING    (Membership 

ceased  June  12,1901) 1922 

1896.  BURNHAM,  JOHN    APPLETON 2237 

1898.  BURRAGE,  CLARENCE   VOSE 

1894.  BURRELL,  HERBERT   LESLIE,  M.D 1564 

1893.  BURTON,  GEORGE    SMITH 1177 

1897.  BUTLER,  JOHN    LAWTON 

1891.     CAPELL,  WILLIAM    CURTIS 1178 

1895.  CARNEY,  GEORGE   JAMES    (Life    Member)     .     .   1930 

1891.  CARPENTER,  FREDERICK    BANKER    ....     719 

1892.  CARPENTER,    GEORGE      OLIVER,    Jr.    (trans- 

ferred TO  Missouri  Society,  1894) 
1897.     GARY,  WILLIAM    AVERY 

1893.  CATON,    EUGENE    LOUIS    (Membership    ceased 

January  21,  1897) 
1892.     CHANDLER,  HENRY   NELSON 

1894.  CHASE,  HENRY    LEVERETT 

189 1.  CHASE,  WILLIAM  LEVERETT  (Endowed  Mem- 
ber) (died  October  7,  1895) 658 

1894.  CHICKERING,  GEORGE  HARVEY  (died  Novem- 
ber 17,  1899) 1645 


38  M>cn^  of  tl)e  iflebolution. 


ADMITTED 


1892.  CHILD,  HORACE  WALTER  (Membership  ceased 

December  13,  1899) 

1893.  CHILDS,    ALBERT   WALTER    (resigned    Decem- 

ber  31,   1902) 2050 

1894.  CHITTENDON,  JONATHAN   BRACE,  Ph.D. 

1894.  CHURCHILL,  GARDNER    ASAPH    (died  August 

21,  1896) 

1896.  CLAPP,  ARTHUR   WINSHIP 

189 1.  CLAPP,    THEODORE    HAROLD    (died    April    7, 

1895) 655 

1893.  CLARK,    FRANK   LACY    (resigned    January  10, 

1900) 

1892.  CLARKE,  GEORGE    KUHN 
1892.     COBB,  ANDREW    BARROWS 
1892.     COBB,  HENRY    EDDY 

1895.  COLE,  CHARLES  HENRY  (resigned  May  9,  1900) 
1895.     COLE,  CHARLES    HENRY,  Jr. 

1894.  COLLAMORE,  JOHN  HOFFMAN   (died  November 

3»  1896) 1452 

1898.  CONANT,  CHARLES    PERKINS 

1895.  CONANT,  WILLIAM    ALBERT  (Life  Member) 

1897.  CONVERSE,  HOWARD    PENDLETON 

1892.  CORTHELL,       WENDELL    GURNEY      (resigned 

May  21,  1897) 

1893.  COX,  EDWIN    BIRCHARD 
1893.     COX,  WILLIAM    EMERSON 
1893.     CRAFTS,  JOHN    CHANCELLOR 

1891.  CRAFTS,  SAMUEL    DOGGETT 978 

1892.  CRAFTS,  WILLIAM    FRANCIS  (resigned  Novem- 

ber 14,  1900) 

1899.  CRANDON,    EDWIN    SANFORD    (Life    Member)  2623 

1893.  CROSS,  CHARLES    HERBERT,  2D 

1896.  CUMMINGS,  THOMAS    CAHILL 


MtAl  of  ^cmbtt^f^ip.  39 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1892.  CUNNINGHAM,  HENRY    WINCHESTER 

1893.  CUNNINGHAM,    STANLEY    (resigned    December 

29,  1897) 
1893.     GUSHING,      HARRY      COOKE,     Major,     U.S.A. 
(Membership  ceased  January  21,  1897) 

1893.  DAMON,  JOHN    LINFIELD,  Jr 1219 

1894.  DANFORTH,    WILLIAM     SEAVER    (Membership 

CEASED  March  16,  1898) 

1893.  DAVIS,  HORATIO 1220 

1894.  DAY,  MOSES  HENRY  (resigned  January  5,  1899) 
1899.     DEAN,  PAUL 

1892.  DENNY,  ARTHUR    BRIGGS 896 

1902.  DEWEY,  HENRY    SWEETSER 2864 

1892.  DILL,  GEORGE   ALBERT    .........     992 

1892.  DORMAN,  WILLIAM  BARNES  (resigned  January 

10,  1900) 993 

1893.  DRAPER,  JAMES 

1892.     DRAPER,  WILLIAM    FRANKLIN 975 

1898.     DUPEE,  FRANK 

1891.  DUTTON,  ARTHUR  HENRY  (Membership  ceased 

January  20,  1896) 303 

1894.  DWIGHT,  EDWIN    WELLES,  M.D. 

1892.  DWIGHT,  HENRY  WILLIAMS  (resigned  January 

21,  1897,  died  December  19,  1899) 

1892.     DWIGHT,  RICHARD    HENRY    WINSLOW     . 

1897.     DYER,  FRANK   WELLS 

1892.     EAGER,  CHARLES    ELDREDGE     (resigned   Jan- 
uary  10,   1900) 

1897.     EASTWICK,  CHARLES    HENRY 

1895.  EATON,  WILLIAM 

1892.     EDES,  HENRY    HERBERT 845 

1892.     EDES,  ROBERT    BALL 

1894.     EVANS,  GEORGE   FREDERIC 


40  ^on^  of  tf)e  JSeboIution. 


ADMITTED 


1900.  EVERETT,  NATHAN 

1894.  FARQUHAR,  DAVID    WEBBER 1451 

1895.  FAUNCE,  ALTON 

1894.  FAY,  CLEMENT    KELSEY  (died  March  15,  1898)   1453 

1895.  FAY,  JOSEPH    STORY,  Jr 1929 

1898.  FELT,  DAVID  OSCEOLA  (Membership  ceased  De- 

cember 31,   1902) 
1897.     FERRIS,  ALEXANDER    MARSH 2626 

1894.  FERRIS,  WILLIAM    MARSH 1461 

1896.  FITZGERALD,  DESMOND 2277 

1896.     FLANDERS,  ERNEST    FRANKLIN    (Membership 

ceased  June  12,  1901) 2238 

1 89 1.  FOGG,   GEORGE   PARSONS,   Jr.     (resigned   Feb- 

ruary 19,   1894) 
1902.     FORBES,  WILLIAM    TROWBRIDGE 

1895.  FORBUSH,  WILLIAM    CURTIS,  Colonel,   U.S.A. 

(retired)  (Endowed  Member) 1848 

1896.  FORRISTALL,    ARTHUR    MELLEN      (died  June 

5,    1898) 

1892.  FOSTER,    ALBERT    JONES     (resigned  December 

31,   1901) 

1894.  FOSTER,  FRANCIS    APTHORP 1455 

1899.  FOSTER,  JOHN    ROY 

1895.  FOSTER,  NATHANIEL,  Jr.    (resigned    December 

3^,  1902) 1927 

1892.     FOWLE,   LEONARD 855 

1892.     FOXCROFT,  GEORGE   AUGUSTUS 
1892.     FRENCH,    AARON    DAVIS    WELD     (Life    Mem- 
ber) (died  October  5,   1896) 994 

1892.     FRENCH,  CHARLES    ELWELL 

1901.  FRENCH,  HENRY    CORMERAIS 

1897.  FRENCH,  JOHN    DAVIS    WILLIAMS  (Life  Mem- 

ber) (died  May  2,   1900) 


HtM  of  a^emfier^^ip.  41 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1902.     FRENCH,  SAMUEL   WALDO 

189 1.  FRY,    ALFRED     BROOKS     (resigned    December 

28,   1897) 

1894.     FULLER,  HERBERT    AUSTIN 1644 

1894.     FULLER,  HORACE  PTSHER  (Membership  ceased 

June  12,  1901) 

1893.  GALLOUPE,  CHARLES   WILLIAM,  M.D.     .     .     .   1458 

1892.  GARFIELD,    ELLERY    IRVING     (resigned    May 

26,   1896) 
1899.     GARMON,  JOSEPH    AMASA 
1899.     GATES,      HENRY      KITTREDGE       (Membership 

ceased  December  31,   1902) 
1899.     GILBERT,  EDWARD    HOOKER 
1899.     GILBERT,  JOHN    HUMPHREY   GRENVILLE 
1892.     GOODELL,  ABNER    CHENEY,  Jr 846 

1899.  GOODENOW,  FRANKLIN    BROWN 2596 

1900.  GOODWIN,  WILLIAM    NEWTON 

1892.  GRAGG,  ISAAC    PAUL 1071 

1894.  GRANGER,  BROWNELL 1479 

1895.  GREELEY,  NORMAN    FROST 1748 

1892.  GREEN,  MALCOLM    DeWOLF 

1892.     GREEN,  SAMUEL    SWETT    (Life  Member) 

1892.     GRIFFITH,  MERRIWEATHER  HOOD  (resigned 

October  26,   1896) 1043 

1892.     GUILD,    CHESTER,    Jr.    (resigned    January     18, 

1901) 1036 

1891.  HALE,  EDWARD    EVERETT,  Reverend,  D.D. 

1892.  HALE,  GEORGE    SILSBEE   (died  July  27,   1897) 

1892.  HALL,  GEORGE   FRANKLIN    (Life  Member)       .   1041 
1900.     HALL,  GEORGE   GOODWIN 

1893.  HALL,  LEWIS    COLEMAN  (transferred  to  New 

York  Society  1896) 1185 

1902.     HARLOW,  GEORGE   HERBERT 


42  J^on^  of  tt^t  JSeboIution. 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1894.  HARRINGTON,      FRANCIS      HENRY,     Captain, 

U.S.M.C.  (Membership  ceased  March  16,    1898) 

1895.  HARRIS,      CHARLES     (resigned    December     31, 

1902) 1852 

1896.  HARRIS,  CLIFFORD    LINCOLN 

1896.     HARRIS,  GEORGE  BLANCHARD  (resigned  Jan- 
uary 18,   1901) 
1894.     HARRIS,    JAMES    GREENWOOD    (died    May    20, 

1899) 1558 

1896.  HASKELL,  GEORGE    EDWARD 2378 

1894.  HASTINGS,  HENRY 1460 

1895.  HATCH,  EDWARD 

1893.     HAWTHORNE,  HARRY    LEROY,  Captain,  Artil- 
lery Corps,   U.S.A. 

1895.     HAYDEN,  CHARLES 1924 

1 89 1.     HAYDEN,  HOWARD    EATON 

1893.  HAYES,     WILLIAM     ALLEN,      2D     (Membership 

CEASED  December  31,  1902) 
1895.     HEATON,  ROBERT    CARTER 

1897.  HEDGES,  SIDNEY    McDOWELL 
1901.     HIBBARD,  GEORGE    ALBEE 

1895.  HILL,  LEW    CASS 

1899.     HOAR,  GEORGE  FRISBIE,  LL.D.  (Life  Member) 

1894.  HOBBS,  FRANKLIN    WARREN 

1896.  HODGES,   GEORGE,    Reverend,    D.D.    (resigned 

January  3,   1898) 

1891.  HODGES,  GILBERT 687 

1892.  HODGES,  WALTER    WHITMAN 939 

1893.  HODGKINS,  JOSEPH   WILSON 1176 

1895.  HOLDEN,  JOSHUA    BENNETT 

1891.     HOLLANDER,   ELMER    RAND 657 

1894.  HOLLANDER,  LOUIS    PRESTON 2208 

1894.     HOLLANDER,  THEODORE    CLARENCE 


McW  of  ^em6er^f)ip.  43 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1896.     HOLMAN,  CHARLES    EDWARD 

1891.  HORSFORD,  EBEN    NORTON,  A.M.    (Life    Mem- 

ber) (died  January  i,   1893) 717 

1892.  HOUGHTON,  CLEMENT    STEVENS    (Life    Mem- 

ber)    937 

1893.  HOUGHTON,  FREDERICK    OAKES 

1893.     HOUGHTON,  HENRY   OSCAR    (died  August  25, 

1895) 

1893.  HOUGHTON,  HENRY    OSCAR,  Jr. 

1892.     HOVEY,     EDWARD     CLARENCE      (Membership 

CEASED  June  12,   1901) 840 

1892.  HOVEY,  HENRY    EMERSON,    Reverend     (trans- 

ferred TO  New  Hampshire  Society  1893)    .     .     848 

1894.  HOWE,   CHESTER    ALLEN 

1895.  HOWE,  EDWARD    JENKINS 

1893.  HOWE,  JOSEPH    DIMOCK 

1894.  HOWE,  LEMUEL    RICE 

1892.     HOWLAND,  DANIEL  WEBSTER  (resigned  March 
16,  1898) 

1892.  HOYT,  MARK,  Jr.  (died  October  24,   1895)      .     .   1044 

1896.  HUNTING,  NATHANIEL    STEVENS,  M.D. 

1893.  HUNTOON,  EDWARD  JAMES  BAKER  (resigned 

October  4,   1894) 

1894.  HURD,  CHARLES    RUSSELL 1459 

1892.     HUTCHINSON,    FRANK    ALLEN     (died   Decem- 
ber 26,   1900) 

1897.  HYDE,  FRANK   CHARLES    (Membership   ceased 

December  31,   1902) 
1892.     INCHES,  CHARLES    EDWARD,  M.D. 

1892.     INCHES,  GEORGE    BRIMMER 1061 

1892.     INCHES,  JOHN    CHESTER    (died    September    26, 

1901) 1058 

1892.     INCHES,  MARTIN    BRIMMER     (died    April    28, 

1893) 1076 


44  J)on^  of  t^t  !!!ebolution. 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1899.     JENKINS,  LAWRENCE   WATERS 
1892.     JEWELL,  EDWARD 

1895.  JOHNSON,  ALONZO    FRANKLIN 

1897.     JOHNSON,  FRANK    MACKIE,  M.D 2404 

1896.  JOHNSON,  GEORGE    PERRY 
1895.     JONES,  JEROME 

1894.  JUDSON,  WILLIAM    VOORHEES,  Captain  Engi- 

neers,   U.S.A.     (transferred     to     New     York 
Society  December,   1898) 

1892.  KELSEY,    ALBERT    HANNIBAL   (died   February 

28,  1901) 1181 

1895.  KELT,  WILLIAM    LEONARD 

1899.  KENT,  DANIEL 2898 

1895.  KING,  DANIEL    WEBSTER 

1895.  KING,  TARRANT    PUTNAM 1976 

1893.  KINGMAN,      BRADFORD      (Membership     ceased 

March  16,  1898) 1462 

1893.  KNAPP,      CHARLES      LANGDON     (Membership 

ceased  March  16,   1898) 

1892.     LANGDON,  GEORGE   WOODWARD 894 

1892.     LANGDON,     WILLIAM     CHAUNCY,    Jr.    (Mem- 
bership CEASED  June  12,  1901) 
1895.     LANSIL,      WALTER      FRANKLIN     (Membership 

ceased  December  13,  1899)  ^ 

1895.     LANSIL,  WILBUR   HENRY  (died  June  26,   1897) 
1892.     LAWRENCE,  ARTHUR,  Reverend,  D.D.       .     .     .   2715 
1892.     LEA,    JAMES    HENRY    (resigned    February    14, 
1900) 

1894.  LEARNED,  FRANCIS    MASON 1481 

1894.     LELAND,  EDMUND    FRANCIS 

1897.  LELAND,  FRANK    AUGUSTUS 

1894.     LINCOLN,    WINSLOW     SEVER    (died    May    25, 
1902) 


iSolI  of  !ei9em6er^f)ip.  45 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1896.     LOWELL,  PAYSON    TUCKER 

1894.  LYNDE,  CORNELIUS    FAY    (Membership    ceased 

March  i6,   1898) 

1891.  LYNDE,  HENRY   FRANCIS 844 

1896.     MACDONOUGH,   RODNEY 2157 

1893.  McGLENEN,  EDWARD    WEBSTER 1378 

1895.  McGLENEN,    HARRY    JARRETT    (resigned    De- 

cember 31,   1902) 

1896.  McINTIRE,    CHARLES    JOHN 

1896.     MAGOUN,     ARTHUR     (resigned     December    31, 

1902) 2243 

1899.     MAJOR,  THOMAS    ELWOOD 

1895.  MALCOLM,  GEORGE  FREDERICK  (Membership 
ceased  June  12,   1901) 

1895.     MANDELL,  SAMUEL    PIERCE 

1895.  MANN,  GEORGE   SUMNER 

1892.  MARBLE,  FREDERICK   PARKER 

1896.  MARBLE,  JOSEPH    RUSSEL 
1902.     MARTIN,  CHARLES    HENRY 

1892.  MASON,  CHARLES  FRANK  (resigned  Decem- 
ber 28,   1897) 843 

1899.  MEARS,  HENRY  AUGUSTUS  (resigned  Decem- 
ber 31,   1901) 

1894.  MEARS,  JOHN  (resigned  May  15,   1901) 

1895.  MERRIAM,  FRANK  (Life  Member) 1770 

1895.  MERRY,     JOHN      FAIRFIELD,     Rear     Admiral 

U.S.N,  (retired) 

1897.  MILES,  CHARLES    EDWIN,  M.D 2330 

1894.  MILLER,  MARCUS  LYON,  Ensign,  U.S.N,  (re- 
signed May  21,  1897) 

1896.  MOORE,    DWIGHT    (transferred    to    New    York 

Society  January,  1899) 
1892.     MORSE,  EDWARD    OILMAN 898 


46  ^on^  of  tfte  iSeboIution. 


ADMITTED 


1894.  MORSE,    ELIJAH    ADAMS    (died  June    5,  1898) 
1901.     MORSE,  GEORGE   WASHINGTON 

1895.  NEWHALL,  JAMES    SILVER  (resigned  February 

14,  1900) 

1895.  NEWTON,  JOHN    FRANKLIN 

1894.     NORCROSS,  GRENVILLE    HOWLAND 

1891.  NOYES,  JAMES  ATKINS  (Life  Member)       ...       45 

1892.  OAKES,  WILLIAM    HERBERT 989 

1892.     O'BRIEN,  EDWARD   FRANCIS 1042 

1896.  ODIORNE,  JOHN    LIVERMORE  (died  March  30, 

1899) 
1892.     ORCUTT,    JOHN    ARCHER   (resigned    October, 

1894) 
1892.     ORCUTT,  SAMUEL  (Membership  ceased  June  12, 

1901) 

1902.     ORDWAY,  ARTHUR   LITTLE 2902 

1899.     OTIS    JAMES     ORVILLE      (Membership      ceased 

December  31,  1902) 

1892.  PAGE,    ARTHUR.     CALVIN    (resigned    January 

10,  1898) 
1891.     PAGE,    CALVIN    ROBINSON   (resigned   January 

21,  1897) 
1891.     PAGE,  CHARLES    JEWETT 2556 

1895.  PAGE,  CYRUS    ANDREW  (died  May  10,  1898)     .   1753 
1891.     PAGE,  JAMES    HENRY 

1893.  PAGE,    LOUIS    COUES     (resigned    December    31, 

1902) 1257 

1891.     PAGE  WALTER    OILMAN 2779 

1898.     PAIGE,  MIRON   LESLIE  (resigned  December  31, 

1901) 

1894.  PALMER,    GEORGE    MUNROE,    M.D.    (Member- 

ship CEASED  March  16,  1898) 

1896.  PARKER,  CHARLES    WENTWORTH 


moll  of  ^em6er^l)ip*  47 


ADMITTED 


1896.     PARKER,  CHARLES    WENTWORTH,  Jr. 

1895.     PARKER,  HENRY   JUDSON  (Membership  ceased 

December  13,  1899) 

1892.     PARKER,  PERCY 990 

1895.     PARSONS,  CHARLES   SUMNER  (resigned  March 

16,  1898) 

1899.     PETTINGELL,  FRANK   HERVEY 2647 

1892.     PIERCE,  EDWARD  LILLIE,  Jr.  (resigned  March 

16,  1898) 
1892.     POLLARD,  GEORGE  EDWARD 

1892.  POMEROY,  THEODORE   LAWRENCE   (Member- 

ship ceased  March  16,  1898) 890 

1893.  POPE,  ALBERT   AUGUSTUS 

1893.  POPE,    ALBERT    LINDER    (transferred  to  Con- 

necticut Society  December,   1898) 1258 

1892.  POPE,  ARTHUR  WALLACE   (Life  Member)    .     .1478 

1894.  PORTER,  ALEXANDER    SYLVANUS,  Jr.     .     .     .  2093 
1901.     PORTER,  CHARLES    HAROLD 

1894.  PORTER,   JAMES    OTIS  (Membership  ceased  De- 

cember 31,   1902) 

1893.  PRICE,  BUTLER    DELAPLAINE,    Colonel,    i6th 

Infantry,  U.S.A. 1179 

1895.  PUTNAM,  GEORGE   FRANKLIN 

1895.  PUTNAM,  GEORGE  JACOB    ........   2051 

1894.  PUTNAM,  JOHN    JAY,    Reverend 

1896.  PUTNAM,  JOHN    PARKHURST,    Reverend 

1895.  QUINCY,   GEORGE   HATCH   (resigned    January 

10,  1900) 

1896.  QUINCY,  JOSIAH 

1892.  READE,   PHILIP,   Lieutenant  Colonel,   23RD  In- 

fantry, U.S. A 973 

1893.  REED,  EDWARD    PAYSON    (died  May  28,   1894) 
1895.     REED,  JOHN 


48  ^on^  of  tl)e  Ulebolution. 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1895.  REED,  WILLIAM    HOWARD 

1895.  REMICK,    JOHN    ANTHONY    (resigned  January 
19,   1898) 

1895.  REMICK,  TIMOTHY 

1896.  REMINGTON,  CLINTON    VAN    SANTVOORD 
1896.  RHODES,  FRED    FEARING 

1893.  RICH,  EDGAR  JUDSON 

1894.  RICHARDSON,  DANIEL    MERCHANT    ....   1476 

1895.  RICHARDSON,  GEORGE   FRANCIS 

1894.  RICHARDSON,  GEORGE   REED 1856 

1892.  RIPLEY,  GEORGE 1037 

1891.  ROBESON,  ANDREW 660 

1895.  ROBINSON,  EDWARD   AUGUSTUS    .....  2005 

1895.  ROBINSON,    FRANK    TORREY    (died    June    2, 

1898) 1933 

1891.  ROE,  EDWARD    DRAKE,  Jr.,  Ph.D 842 

1892.  ROLLINS,  CHARLES    HERMAN      ......     745 

1893.  RONIMUS,  JAMES    DYER 

1896.  ROWE,  CHARLES    EDWARD 

1902.  RUDD,    EDWARD    HUNTTING,    Reverend 

1901.  RUDDICK,  WILLIAM    ALTHEUS 

1893.  RUGGLES,  HENRY    STODDARD 1279 

1893.  RUSSELL,  HENRY    EDWARDS 

1895.  RUSSELL,  JOSEPH    BALLISTER 

1897.  RUSSELL,  THOMAS    HASTINGS,   2D 

1892.  RUSSELL,  WILLIAM    EUSTIS,    LL.D.  (died  July 

16,   1896) 

1895.  RYDER,  CHARLES   CHRISTOPHER 

1893.  SALISBURY,    STEPHEN    (Life    Member)      .     .     .1187 
1895.  SAMPSON,  WALTER    SCOTT 

1902.  SANBORN,  WALTER   LINCOLN 2881 

1895.  SANDS,  EDWARD    PARKER 2846 

1896.  SANFORD,    ROBERT    WARREN     (resigned  No- 

vember 22,  1897) 


Jloll  of  ^tmhtt&f^xp.  49 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1893.     SAXTON,    ARTHUR     WARREN    (died    July    19, 

1895) 
1893.     SAXTON,     THOMAS      FREDERIC     (Membersihp 
CEASED  December  31,   1902) 

1893.  SCHAFF,       HARRISON       HALE       (Membership 

ceased  December  13,   1899) 
1897.     SEARS,  HENRY   DARRAH 2367 

1894.  SEAVER,  JAMES    EDWARD  (Membership  ceased 

March  8,   1899) 

1 89 1.  SHATTUCK,    GEORGE     CHEYNE,     M.D.     (died 

March  22,  1893) 

1895.  SHAW,  CHARLES    RUSSELL 

1892.  SHAW,  ELISHA  HERMANN  (died  November  24, 

1898) 

1896.  SHORT,  CHARLES    LANCASTER,  Reverend 

1901.     SIMMONS,  WILLIAM    STEARNS 2796 

1894.     SLOCUM,    WILLIAM    STANTON   (resigned    De- 
cember 31,   1901) 

1893.  SMITH,  CHARLES  FREDERICK  (died  April  18, 

1899) 

1891.  SMITH,  EDWARD    HALE 1078 

1892.  SMITH,  FREDERICK   PHILLIPS 

1896.     SMITH,    GEORGE    HENRY   (resigned   February 

8,   1899) 
1899.     SMITH,     NATHANIEL     CANNON    (Membership 

ceased  December  31,  1902) 2666 

1894.  SOLIS,  HENRY  AUGUSTUS  (Membership  ceased 

March  8,  1899) 

1894.  SOULE,  FREDERIC    WILLIAM 17 14 

1899.     SOUTHGATE,     HUGH     MacLELLAN    (resigned 

December  31,   1902) 

1893.  SPALDING,  FRANCIS    ROLLIN 1182 

1895.  SPRAGUE,  AUGUSTUS    CLARKE 
1895.     SPRAGUE,  PHINEAS   WARREN 


50  ^on^  of  tfte  iSeboIution. 


ADMITTED 


1892.     STEARNS,  FRANK   ABBOTT 938 

1892.  STEARNS,    GEORGE    MARSHALL    (Membership 

CEASED  January  21,   1897) 
1896.     STEARNS,  WILLIAM    BRAMHALL 
1895.     STEVENS,     BENJAMIN     FRANKLIN     (resigned 

December  31,   1902) 

1895.  STEVENS,     CHARLES     EDWARD    (died    Septem- 

ber 14,   1899) 1923 

1893.  STEVENS,  CHARLES   GODFREY  (resigned  May 

21,  1897) 

1896.  STEVENS,  FREDERICK   THAYER 

1897.  STEVENS,  GEORGE   LORING 2358 

1892.  STEVENS,  HAZARD,  Brevet  Brigadier  General, 

U.S.V.,  Hetial  of  J^0nor. 
1897.     STEVENS,  HORACE    HOLLY,  2D 

1893.  STEVENS,  JESSE   FENNO 

1894.  STEVENS,  JONATHAN  TYLER  (died  March  13, 

1902) 1480 

1896.  STEVENS,  MOSES    TYLER,  Jr. 

1893.  STEVENS,  SAMUEL  DALE 

1897.  STOCKWELL,  GEORGE  STEPHEN 

1897.     STONE,  WILLIAM    EBEN 2403 

1892.  STORRS,  LEONARD  KIP,  Reverend,  D.D.  .  .  853 
1892.  STOVER,  WILLIS  WHITTEMORE  .  .  .  .  .2074 
1892.     SULLIVAN,  LYNDE 854 

1894.  SWEET,    CHARLES    FILKINS,    Reverend    (Mem- 

bership ceased  December  13,   1899) 
1897.     SWEET,  HENRY    NETTLETON 2333 

1891.  TALBOT,  THOMAS 718 

1892.  TALBOT,  WINTHROP  TISDALE,  M.D.  (resigned 

December  31,   1901) 
1897.     TARBELL,     JOHN     FRANKSFORD,     Paymaster, 

U.S.N,  (retired) 2329 


fioll  of  sr^cmfier^fjip.  51 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1898.  TAYLOR,    FREDERICK     WINTHROP    (Member- 

ship CEASED  December  31,   1902) 
1896.     TAYLOR,  JOHN    LEWIS    (resigned    January    10, 

1900) 2192 

1899.  THAYER,  CHARLES    IRVING 2698 

1891.  THAYER,  HENRY  VAUGHAN 654 

1902.     THAYER,  WILLIAM    HOLBROOK 

1893.  THOMAS,  CYRUS    KING 

1893.  THOMPSON,  ABIJAH  (resigned  January  17,  1898) 

1893.  THOMPSON,  EBEN    FRANCIS  (Life  Member)     .   1755 

1894.  THOMPSON,     JOHN      TALIAFERRO,      Captain 

Ordnance     Department,     U.S.A.    (Membership 
ceased  March  16,  1898) 

1895.  TILLINGHAST,       CHARLES       MELLEN      (died 

March  5,   1902) 1968 

1892.  TILTON,     PALMER,     First    Lieutenant,    U.S.A. 

(retired) 1059 

1892.     TILTON,  WARREN    CODMAN 1060 

1892.  TIMSON,    LEVI    EDGAR  (resigned    January    20, 

1896) 

1895.  TINKHAM,  HORACE   WILLIAMS 

1894.  TOBEY,    EDWARD    SILAS    (died  July    23,   1902) 

1896.  TOLMAN,  WILLIAM    SAWYER 2189 

1895.  TOMPKINS,  EUGENE 1926 

1897.  TORREY,  HARRY    BOWEN 

1895.  TOWER,  CHARLES    BATES,  M.D 1928 

1896.  TRACY,  WILLIAM  AZRO   (resigned  February  8, 

1899) 
1902.     TRASK,  FREDERIC    PARKER 
1894.     TRASK,  JOHN    LOW    ROGERS,   Reverend 
1896.     TRUMBULL,     CHARLES     PERKINS    (died    Oc- 
tober 3,   1896) 

1893.  TUCKER,  CHARLES    BARNARD 12 15 

1893.     TUFTS,   EDWARD    AMOS    (resigned   January    10, 

1900) 


52  ^on^  of  t{)e  iltebolution. 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1895.     TYLER,  CHARLES    HITCHCOCK 
1895.     TYLER,  CLIFFORD    MOLINEAUX 
1895.     TYLER,  DANIEL 

1894.     TYLER,  DANIEL  GAGE  (resigned  December  31, 
1901) 

1894.  TYLER,    JOHN    FORD      (resigned    January     10, 

1900) 
1900.     UNDERWOOD,  JOSEPH    RAWSON 

1895.  UTLEY,  SAMUEL   (resigned    March    16,    1898) 

1894.  VINCENT,   DENNISON    HOWARD     (Membership 

CEASED  December  31,   1902) 

1895.  WALLACE,  WILLIAM 

1897.  WALWORTH,  ARTHUR    CLARENCE 

1895.  WARD,  FRANCIS    JACKSON 1754 

1896.  WARREN,  ALBERT    CYRUS 2278 

1891.     WARREN,  HENRY    DEXTER 652 

1895.  WATERS,  JOHN    AUGUSTUS 

1 89 1.  WATKINS,  WALTER    KENDALL 836 

1892.  WEBSTER,  PRENTISS  (died  October  26,  1898)     .   1045 
1895.  WEBSTER,  WILLIAM    HENRY 

1897.  WEEKS,  JOHN    WINGATE 2359 

1894.  WELD,  DANIEL   (Life    Member) 1491 

1894.  WELD,    OTIS     EVERETT    (Life   Member)     (died 

March  17,   1897) 1496 

1894.  WELLINGTON,  FRED   WILLIAMS 1454 

1899.     WELLS,  WELLINGTON 

1897.     WESTFALL,  JOHN    HENRY,  U.S.N,    (retired)     .   2870 
1891.     WETHERBEE,  JEREMIAH    OTIS    (died   June  21, 
1901) 

1891.  WETHERBEE,    WINTHROP -653 

1895.  WHEELER,   EDWARD    BLASLAND 

1892.  WHEELER,  EDWARD    SLADE   (resigned   Decem- 

ber 31,   1902) 
189 1.     WHEELER,  GEORGE   WOODMAN 


JHoH  of  jWcmfter^fttp,  53 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1895.     WHEELER,  JAMES    HOWE,  Jr. 
1895.     WHEELER,    JOHN    FREDERICK     (resigned    De- 
cember 31,  1901) 
1893.     WHITE,  JAMES    GARDINER 1216 

1892.  WHITING,     FREDERICK     MONROE     (Member- 

ship CEASED  June  12,  1901) 940 

1895.     WHITING,  WILLIAM    SAWIN 
1902.     WHITNEY,  FREDERICK 

1893.  WILLIAMS,  EDGAR    NYE 

1895.  WILLIAMS,  FRANKLIN    DELANO 

1893.  WILLIAMS,  GEORGE   GORHAM 

1901.  WILLIAMS,  LOMBARD 

1893.  WILLIAMS,  SAMUEL    KING 1186 

1895.  WILSON,    HENRY    NEILL     (Membership    ceased 

December  31,   1902) 

1899.  WING,  FRANK    EDWARD 

1899.  WINGATE,  JAMES   IRISH 

1897.  WISE,   STUART   WADSWORTH 

1899.  WISWELL,   DEXTER    BANCROFT 

1892.  WITHERBEE,  FRANK    BERNARD 847 

1895.  WOODMAN,   CHARLES    BROWNELL 

1896.  WOODMAN,  STEPHEN    FOSTER 

1897.  WOODS,   EDWIN    HUTTON 
1897.  WOODS,  FRANK    FORREST 

1892.  WOODS,  HENRY    ERNEST  (resigned  January  20, 

1896) 
1895.     WOODS,    JOSEPH     EDWIN    (Membership   ceased 
March  8,   1899) 

1893.  WOODS,  WALTER    HUTTON 1467 

1894.  WOODWARD,  CHARLES    WASHBURN 

1894.  YEATON,   GEORGE   WALTER 1596 

1899.  YOUNG,  DORIS    ALVERTO 

1895.  YOUNG,   HARRY 

1896.  YOUNG,  WILLIAM    HILL 


mecottijs  of  j^etu  Slpembetss. 


Eecortijs  of  il^eto  ^pembem 

Admitted  since  Register  of  1899. 


ADMITTED 


1900.     APPLETON,  FRANCIS    HENRY 2707 

Great-great-grandson  of  James  Sullivan  (i 744-1808), 
Member  of  Massachusetts  Provincial  Congress, 
1775-1777  ;  Member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety; 
Commissioner  of  the  Ticonderoga  Expedition, 
1775  ;  Commander-in-chief  of  the  Militia,  District 
of  Maine,  1775;  Commissary  of  Massachusetts 
troops  at  Falmouth,  1776;  Member  of  the  General 
Court  of  Massachusetts,  1778-1779;  Delegate  to 
Massachusetts  Constitutional  Convention,  1779. 

1902.     AYRES,  ISAAC    HULL. 

Great-grandson  of  Moses  Ayres,  Jr.  (1751-  ), 
Private  in  Captain  Josiah  King's  Company,  Colonel 
D.  Brewer's  (Ninth)  Regiment,  afterwards  Colonel 
Rufus  Putnam's  Regiment,  1775. 

1900.     BACON,  CHARLES    JENKINS. 

Great-grandson  of  Samuel  Bacon  (1731-1781),  Cor- 
poral in  Captain  James  Davis's  Company,  enlisting 
July  I,  1775,  and  serving  six  months  and  five  days 
on  seacoast;  Sergeant,  Captain  Micah  Hamhn's 
Company,  Colonel  T.  Marshall's  Regiment,  at 
Castle  Island,  1776.  He  probably  rendered 
further  military  service,  although  the  record  is  lost, 
as  he  died  in  1781  on  board  the  "Jersey,"  prison 
ship  at  St.  Lucia. 


58  ^on^  of  t^t  !lletolution. 


ADMITTED 


1900.  BACON,  HENRY. 

Great-grandson  of  Samuel  Bacon  (1731-1781),  Cor- 
poral in  Captain  James  Davis's  Company,  enlisting 
July  I,  1775,  and  serving  six  months  and  five  days 
on  seacoast;  Sergeant,  Captain  Micah  Hamlin's 
Company,  Colonel  T.  Marshall's  Regiment,  at 
Castle  Island,  1776.  He  probably  rendered 
further  military  service,  although  the  record  is  lost, 
as  he  died  in  1781  on  board  the  ''Jersey,"  prison 
ship  at  St.  Lucia. 

1902.     BARKER,  MERLE    TAFT. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Jesse  Barker,  Jr.  (1761-1804), 
Private  in  Captain  Isaac  Warren's  (Sixth)  Company, 
Colonel  John  Bailey's  Regiment,  April  4,  1777  to 
^  December  31,  1779. 

1901.  BARKER,  RALPH    EDMONDS. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Jesse  Barker,  Jr.  (i 761-1804), 
Private  in  Captain  Isaac  Warren's  (Sixth)  Com- 
pany, Colonel  John  Bailey's  Regiment,  April  4,  1777 
to  December  31,  1779. 

1902.  DEWEY,  HENRY    SWEETSER 2864 

Great-grandson  of  William  Dewey  (1746-18 13),  Cor- 
poral in  Captain  Worthy  Waters 's  Company,  from 
Hebron,  Conn.,  on  Lexington  Alarm,  1775  ;  Private 
in  Lieutenant  Jonathan  Freeman's  Company,  Colo- 
nel Jonathan  Chase's  Regiment  of  New  Hampshire 
Militia,  1776;  Corporal  in  Captain  Edmund  Free- 
man's Company,  Colonel  Jonathan  Chase's  Regi- 
ment of  New  Hampshire  Militia,  1777. 

1900.     EVERETT,  NATHAN. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Israel  Everett  (17 19-  ),  Ser- 
geant in  Captain  George  Gould's  Company,  from 
Dedham,  Mass. 


iSecotti^  of  l^eto  ^tmbtt^.  59 

ADMITTED  INSIGNIA 

1902.     FORBES,  WILLIAM   TROWBRIDGE. 

Great-grandson  of  Ebenezer  Chamberlain  (1740- 
1806),  Sergeant  in  Captain  George  Baker's  Com- 
pany, from  Westborough,  Mass.,  on  Lexington 
Alarm,  1775. 

1901.  FRENCH,  HENRY    CORMERAIS. 

Great-great-grandson  of  William  French,  Jr.  (1712- 
1793),  Member  of  Captain  Reuben  Dow's  Company 
of  Minute-men,  who  marched  from  Hollis,  N.H.,  to 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  April  19,  1775. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Samuel  Daggett  (1751-1831), 
Corporal  in  Captain  Abel  Richards's  Company, 
Colonel  Benjamin  Hawes's  Regiment,  1777;  First 
Lieutenant  of  Captain  Thomas  Bristow's  Com- 
pany, First  Suffolk  County  Regiment,  Massachu- 
setts Militia,  1778. 

Great-great-grandson  of  William  Holmes  (1754-1801), 
Private  in  Captain  Edward  Bridge  Savel's  Company, 
Colonel  Robinson's  Regiment,  on  Lexington  Alarm, 
1775;  Private  in  Captain  Samuel  Payson's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Joseph  Reed's  Regiment,  1775. 

Great-grandson  of  Ephraim  French  (i 751-1834),  Ser- 
geant in  Captain  William  Barron's  Company,  Colo- 
nel Isaac  Wyman's  Regiment,  1776;  Member  of 
Colonel  Bellows's  Regiment,  at  Ticonderoga,  1777. 

1902.  FRENCH,  SAMUEL    WALDO. 

Great-great-grandson  of  WilUam  French,  Jr.  (1712- 
1793),  Member  of  Captain  Reuben  Dow's  Company 
of  Minute-men,  who  marched  from  Hollis,  N.H.,  to 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  April  19,  1775. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Samuel  Daggett  (1751-1831), 
Corporal  in  Captain  Abel  Richards's  Company, 
Colonel  Benjamin  Hawes's  Regiment,  1777;  First 
Lieutenant  of  Captain  Thomas  Bristow's  Company, 
First  Suffolk  County  Regiment,  Massachusetts 
Militia,  1778. 

Great-great-grandson  of  WilUam  Holmes  (1754-1801), 


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Private  in  Captain  Edward  Bridge  Savel's  Company, 
Colonel  Robinson's  Regiment,  on  Lexington  Alarm, 
1775  ;  Private  in  Captain  Samuel  Payson's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Joseph  Reed's  Regiment,  1775. 
Great-grandson  of  Ephraim  French  (i 751-1834),  Ser- 
geant in  Captain  William  Barron's  Company,  Colo- 
nel Isaac  Wyman's  Regiment,  1776;  Member  of 
Colonel  Bellows's  Regiment,  at  Ticonderoga,  1777. 

1899.  GARMON,  JOSEPH    AMASA. 

Great-grandson  of  Joseph  Bartlett  (1760-  ),  Pri- 
vate in  Captain  Asa  Danforth's  Company,  Colonel 
Arnold's  Regiment,  177 6- 1777;  Private  in  Peter 
Hazard's  and  Ebenezer  Spears's  Company,  Colonel 
Thomas  Nixon's  Regiment,  1777-1780;  Corporal 
in  Captain  Adam  Bailey's  and  Captain  Seth  Drew's 
Company,  Colonel  Sprout's  "Grenadiers." 

1900.  GOODWIN,  WILLIAM    NEWTON. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Samuel  Lovejoy(i757-i84i), 
Member  of  Captain  Lawrence's  Company,  Colonel 
Prescott's  Regiment,  1775. 

1900.     HALL,  GEORGE   GOODWIN. 

Great-grandson  of  Stephen  Hall  (i 733-1803),  Pri- 
vate in  Captain  Jonathan  Shaw's  Company,  Colonel 
George  WilHams's  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Militia, 
1776;  Private  in  Captain  Jonathan  Shaw's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  John  Daggett's  Regiment,  Massachu- 
setts Militia,  1778;  Private  in  Captain  Jonathan 
Shaw's  Company,  Colonel  Abiel  Mitchell's  Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts  MiUtia,  1780. 

1902.     HARLOW,  GEORGE   HERBERT. 

Great-grandson  of  Gideon  Harlow  (1743-  ),  Pri- 
vate in  Captain  Benjamin  Wadsworth's  (Second 
Duxbury)  Company,  Colonel  James  Warren's 
Plymouth  County  Regiment,  on  Lexington  Alarm, 
1775  ;    Member  of  Lieutenant  Nathan  Sampson's 


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INSIGNIA 

(Second  Duxbury)  Company,  Colonel  Lothrop's 
Regiment,  which  marched  to  Bristol,  R.I.,  Decem- 
ber lo,  1776,  on  an  alarm. 
Great-grandson  of  Edward  Flint  (i  733-181 8),  Sur- 
geon in  Colonel  Jonathan  Ward's  Regiment,  at 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  1775;  Surgeon  at  Ticonderoga, 
1776. 

1901.     HIBBARD,  GEORGE   ALBEE. 

Great-grandson  of  David  Hibbard  (1755-1855),  Drum- 
mer in  Captain  Putnam's  Company,  Colonel  Storrs's 
Connecticut  Regiment,  1775  ;  Drummer  in  Captain 
Waterman's  Company,  Colonel  Durkee's  Connecti- 
cut Regiment,  1775-1776;  Drummer  in  Captain 
Rust's  Company,  Colonel  Huntington's  Connecticut 
Regiment,  1777;  Drummer  in  Captain  Wales's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Latimer's  Connecticut  Regiment, 
1777;  Wagoner  in  Colonel  Phelps's  Connecticut 
Regiment,  1778  ;  Drum  Major  in  Colonel  Abbott's 
Connecticut  Regiment,  1779. 

1899.     JENKINS,  LAWRENCE   WATERS. 

Great-grandson  of  James  Jenkins  (1759-1801),  Pri- 
vate in  Captain  Baldwin's  Company,  Colonel  Mat- 
thias Ogden's  First  Regiment  of  New  Jersey 
Continental  Infantry. 

1899.     MAJOR,  THOMAS    ELWOOD. 

Great-grandson  of  James  Curry  (1755-  )'  Volun- 
teer in  Captain  Archibald  Thompson's  Rifle  Com- 
pany, 1775  ;  Member  of  Captain  John  Hamilton's 
Company,  Major  John  Berry's  BattaUon,  1776; 
Member  of  Captain  Stephen  Porter's  Rifle  Com- 
pany, 1776  ;  Adjutant  to  Generals  Potter  and  Heis- 
ton,  1776-1777;  served  as  Express  Rider  for 
General  Washington,  1777;  Member  of  Captain 
Pitt's  Company,  Colonel  Thompson's  Regiment, 
1777  ;  Adjutant  to  General  Potter  and  Colonel 
Moore,  177 7-1 778-1 779.  Was  pensioned  as  Cap- 
tain. 


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ADMITTED 


1902.     MARTIN,  CHARLES    HENRY. 

Great-great-great-grandson  of  Nathaniel  Bayley  (1732- 
18 1 2),  Representative  to  Massachusetts  General 
Court  from  Weymouth,  1774;  Delegate  to  Pro- 
vincial Congress  at  Salem,  Mass.,  1774;  Delegate 
to  Congress  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  1775;  Delegate 
to  Watertown  Congress,  1775;  Representative  to 
Massachusetts  General  Court  from  Weymouth, 
1776;  Member  of  Suffolk  County  Committee  to 
raise  troops,  1776. 

1901.  MORSE,  GEORGE   WASHINGTON. 

Great-grandson  of  Nathaniel  Page  (1742-18 19), 
Private  and  Standard-bearer  in  Captain  Jonathan 
Wilson's  Company  of  Bedford  Minute-men,  on 
Lexington  Alarm,  1775. 

1902.  ORDWAY,  ARTHUR    LITTLE 2902 

Great- great-grandson  of  Thomas  Colby  (17 56-1844), 
Private  in  Captain  Samuel  Nay's  Company,  Colonel 
Wingate's  Regiment,  in  the  Northern  Continental 
Army,  1776;  Member  of  Captain  John  Eastman's 
Company,  Colonel  Thomas  Bartlett's  Regiment,  at 
West  Point,  N.Y.,  1780. 

1901.  PORTER,  CHARLES    HAROLD. 

Great-great-great-grandson  of  Nehemiah  Porter  (1728- 
),  Member  of  Captain  Philip   Thomas's  Com- 
pany, from  Rindge,  N.H.,  at  Bunker  Hill  and  Siege 
of  Boston,  1775. 

1902.  RUDD,  EDWARD    HUNTTING,  Reverend. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Roswell  Hopkins  (1733- 
181 7),  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  Colonel  Sutherland's 
Sixth  (Duchess  County)  Regiment,  New  York 
Militia,  1775  ;  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  Colonel  Gra- 
ham's Regiment  of  Foot  Guards,  in  General 
Clinton's  Brigade,  1776;  Colonel  of  Sixth  Regi- 
ment, vice    Sutherland,   resigned,    1778.     Was    en- 


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gaged  at  Saratoga,  1777,  and  was  noticed  for 
bravery  at  Fort  Independence,  near  Peekskill, 
N.Y.,  1777. 

1901.  RUDDICK,  WILLIAM    ALTHEUS. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Edward  Rumney  (1745- 
1808),  Lieutenant  in  Captain  John  Popkin's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Richard  Gridley's  Regiment,  1775. 
Served  under  General  Henry  Knox  at  Fort  Ticon- 
deroga. 

1902.  SANBORN,  WALTER   LINCOLN 2881 

Great-great-grandson  of  Benjamin  Batchelder  (1726- 
1792),  Sergeant  in  Captain  John  Calef's  Company, 
stationed  on  Great  Island,  N.H.,  1775;  Ensign  in 
Captain  John  Calef's  Company,  Colonel  Pierce 
Long's  New  Hampshire  Regiment,  17 76-1 7 7 7. 

1901.     SIMMONS,  WILLIAM    STEARNS. 

Great-grandson  of  Benoni  Simmons  (i 755-1835), 
Private  in  Captain  Samuel  Wyllys's  (First)  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Joseph  Spencer's  (Second)  Connecti- 
cut Regiment,  1775  ;  Sergeant  in  Captain  Ebenezer 
Stevens's  (Rhode  Island)  Company,  Colonel  Henry 
Knox's  (Massachusetts)  Regiment  of  Continental 
Artillery,  1776;  Master  Gunner  on  galley  "Trum- 
bull," Captain  Seth  Warren,  commander,  on  Lake 
Champlain;  1776;  on  ship  "Alliance,"  Captain 
John  Berry,  commander;  Sergeant  in  Captain 
Squire  Rowe's  Company,  Colonel  Robert  Elliot's 
(Rhode  Island)  Regiment  of  Artillery,  1779.  He 
lost  an  arm  in  action,  October  11,  1776. 

1899.     SMITH,  NATHANIEL    CANNON 2666 

Great-great-grandson  of  Rev.  Charles  Thompson 
(i 748-1 803),  Chaplain  on  the  staff  of  Colonel 
Christopher  Greene.  Taken  prisoner  May  25, 
1778,  and  confined  at  Newport,  R.I. 


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1902.     THAYER,  WILLIAM    HOLBROOK. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Jonathan  Thayer  (1725- 
1805),  Member  of  Committee  of  Safety,  1777,  1778, 
1781  ;  Captain  of  MiUtia  Company  from  Braintree, 
1778. 

Great-grandson  of  Abner  Craft  (i  740-1810),  Captain 
Twenty-fifth  Regiment,  Colonel  Thomas  Gardner, 
at  Lexington  Alarm  and  Bunker  Hill,  1775;  Adju- 
tant of  same  Regiment,  1776. 

1902.     TRASK,  FREDERIC    PARKER. 

Great-great-great-grandson  of  Ebenezer  Trask,  Sr. 
(17 1 5-1 7  79),  Private  in  Captain  Caleb  Dodge's 
Company,  Beverly  Minute-men,  1775. 

Great-grandson  of  WilUam  Rogers  (i  755-1832), 
Private  in  Captain  Benjamin  Gates's  Company, 
Colonel  Rufus  Putnam's  Regiment  (Fifth  Conti- 
nental Line),  March  4,  1777,  to  December  31,  1779. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Phineas  Hovey  (  -  ), 
Private  in  Captain  Peter  Shaw's  Company,  from 
Beverly,  on  Lexington  Alarm,  1775. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Ebenezer  Trask,  Jr.  (1741- 
181 4),  Private  in  Captain  Peter  Shaw's  Company, 
from  Beverly,  on  Lexington  Alarm,  1775. 

1900.     UNDERWOOD,  JOSEPH    RAWSON. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Nathaniel  Rix  (i 753-1828), 
Member  of  Captain  Samuel  Young's  Company, 
Colonel  Biddle's  Regiment,  1775-1776;  Member 
of  Captain  Thomas  Simpson's  Company,  1776; 
Member  of  Captain  Hutchins's  Company,  1777. 
Served  as  Drummer  and  as  Sergeant. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Obadiah  Eastman  (1747- 
1836).  Served  in  Captain  Joseph  Hutchins's  Com- 
pany, under  Major-general  Gates,  in  the  Eastern 
Division  of  the  Northern  Department,  1777; 
Member  of  Captain  Samuel  Young's  Company, 
Colonel  Timothy  Biddle's  Regiment,  1778. 


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1902.     WHITNEY,  FREDERICK. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Amos  Wood  (i 737-1806), 
Sergeant  in  Lieutenant  Ephraim  Wheeler's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Eleazer  Brooks's  Regiment  of  Massa- 
chusetts MiUtia,  at  Siege  of  Boston,  1776. 

1901.     WILLIAMS,  LOMBARD. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Benjamin  Williams  (  - 
),  on  Lexington  Alarm,  from  New  Ipswich, 
N.H. ;  Sergeant  in  Captain  Ezra  Towne's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Reed's  Regiment,  1775  ;  Ensign  in 
Stephen  Parker's  Company,  Colonel  Moses 
Nichols's  Regiment,  in  General  Stark's  Brigade, 
1777  ;  Ensign  in  Captain  Robert  Fletcher's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Enoch  Hale's  Regiment  from  New 
Hampshire,  which  joined  the  Continental  Army  in 
Rhode  Island,  1778. 

1899.     WING,  FRANK    EDWARD. 

Great-grandson  of  Isaiah  Wing  (i 761-1834),  Private 
in  Captain  Samuel  Taylor's  Company,  Colonel 
Nicholas  Dyke's  Regiment,  at  Siege  of  Boston, 
1776;  Fifer  in  Captain  Abel  Dinsmore's  Company, 
Colonel  Ruggles  Woodbridge's  Regiment,  in  North- 
ern Army,  1777. 


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ADMITTED 


1899.     CRANDON,    EDWIN    SANFORD 2623 

Great-great-grandson    of   Timothy    Chubbuck  (1750- 
),  Private  in  Captain  Isaac  Fearing's  Company 
of  Minute-men  from  Wareham,  Mass.,  on  Lexington 
Alarm,  1775. 

1893.     RUGGLES,    HENRY    STODDARD 1279 

Great-grandson  of  John  Goodwin  (  -1801),  Lieu- 
tenant in  Captain  Lord's  York  County  (Massachu- 
setts) Company,  1776. 

Great-grandson  of  Phineas  Kingsley  (i 750-1825), 
Private  in  Captain  WilUams's  Company,  Colonel 
Eben  Allen's  Regiment,  1780;  Private  in  Ensign 
Cushman's  detachment  on  alarm  to  Fort  Vengeance, 
1780. 

Great-grandson  of  Samuel  Ruggles  (1751-1778), 
Private  in  Captain  Smith's  Company,  Colonel  Wat- 
erbury's  Regiment,  1775. 

1895.     WHEELER,    JAMES    HOWE,    Jr. 

Great-great-grandson  of  Enoch  Glover  (i  734-1801), 
Private  in  Captain  Lemuel  Clapp's  Company,  Colo- 
nel Benjamin  Gill's  Regiment,  at  Dorchester 
Heights,  1776;  Private  in  Captain  Lemuel  Clapp's 
Company,  Colonel  Pierce's  Regiment,  at  Castle 
Island,  1778;  Member  of  Captain  Clapp's  Com- 
pany, Major  Nathaniel  Heath's  Regiment,  at 
Dorchester  Heights,   1779. 


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NEW    MEMBERS   ADMITTED,  AND  OF  SUPPLEMENTARY 

RECORDS    OF    OLD    MEMBERS    FILED    SINCE 

REGISTER   OF    1899. 


Ayres,  Moses,  Jr.  (1751-        ). 
Isaac  Hull  Ayres. 

Bacon,  Samuel  (1731-1781). 
Charles  Jenkins  Bacon. 
Henry  Bacon. 

Barker,  Jesse,  Jr.  (1761-1804). 
Merle  Taft  Barker. 
Ralph  Edmonds  Barker. 

Bartlett,  Joseph  (1760-        ). 
Joseph  Amasa  Garmon. 

Batchelder,     Benjamin     (1726- 
1792). 
Walter  Lincoln  Sanborn. 

Bayley,  Nathaniel  (i 732-181 2). 
Charles  Henry  Martin. 

Chamberlain,    Ebenezer    (1740- 
1806). 
William  Trowbridge  Forbes. 


Chubbuck,  Timothy  (1750- 
Edwin  Sanford  Crandon. 

Colby,  Thomas  (i  756-1844). 
Arthur  Little  Ordway. 

Craft,  Abner  (i  740-1810). 
William  Holbrook  Thayer. 


). 


Curry,  James  (1755-        ). 
Thomas  Elwood  Major. 

Daggett,  Samuel  (1751-1831). 
Henry  Cormerais  French. 
Samuel  Waldo  French. 

Dewey,  William  (i 746-1813). 
Henry  Sweetser  Dewey. 

Eastman,  Obadiah  (i  747-1 836). 
Joseph  Rawson  Underwood. 

Everett,  Israel  (1719-        ). 
Nathan  Everett. 

Flint,  Edward,  Dr.  (i  733-1818). 
George  Herbert  Harlow. 

French,  Ephraim  (i  751-1834). 
Henry  Cormerais  French. 
Samuel  Waldo  French. 

French,  William,  Jr.  (17 12-1793). 
Henry  Cormerais  French. 
Samuel  Waldo  French. 

Glover,  Enoch  (i  734-1801). 
James  Howe  Wheeler,  Jr. 

Goodwin,  John  (        -1801). 
Henry  Stoddard  Ruggles. 


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Hall,  Stephen  (i  733-1 803). 
George  Goodwin  Hall. 

Harlow,  Gideon  (1743-        ). 
George  Herbert  Harlow. 

HiBBARD,  David  (1755-1855). 
George  Albee  Hibbard. 

Holmes,  William  (i  754-1801). 
Henry  Cormerais  French. 
Samuel  Waldo  French. 

Hopkins,  Roswell  (1733-1817). 
Edward  Huntting  Rudd. 

Hovey  Phineas  (         -         ). 
Frederic  Parker  Trask. 

Jenkins,  James  (i  759-1801). 
Lawrence  Waters  Jenkins. 

Kingsley,  Phineas  (1750-1825). 
Henry  Stoddard  Ruggles. 

LovEjOY,  Samuel  (i  757-1841). 
William  Newton  Goodwin. 

Page,  Nathaniel  (i  742-1819). 
George  Washington  Morse. 

Porter,  Nehemiah  (i  728-1 793). 
Charles  Harold  Porter. 

Rix,  Nathaniel  (i  753-1 828). 
Joseph  Rawson  Underwood. 


Rogers,  William  (i  755-1832). 
Frederic  Parker  Trask. 

Ruggles,  Samuel  (i  751-1778). 
Henry  Stoddard  Rnggles. 

Rumney,  Edward  (i  745-1 802). 
William  Altheus  Ruddick. 

Simmons,  Benoni  (i 755-1835). 
William  Stearns  Simmons. 


Sullivan,  James  (i  744-1; 
Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Thayer,  Jonathan  (i  725-1 805). 
William  Holbrook  Thayer. 

Thompson,  Charles,  Rev.  (1748- 
1803). 
Nathaniel  Cannon  Smith. 

Trask,     Ebenezer,     Sr.     (1715- 

1779)- 
Frederic  Parker  Trask. 

Trask,     Ebenezer,     Jr.     (1741- 
1814). 
Frederic  Parker  Trask. 

Williams,  Benjamin  (        -        ). 
Lombard  Williams. 

Wing,  Isaiah  (1761-1834). 
Frank  Edward  Wing. 

Wood,  Amos  (i 737-1806). 
Frederick  Whitney. 


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Marshall  Kittredge  Abbott,  born  February  27,  1848 ; 
admitted  to  membership  May  10,  1893;  died  August 
25,  1899. 

Edward  Ingersoll  Browne,  born  February  11,  1833;  ad- 
mitted to  membership  January  19,  1895  ;  died  Septem- 
ber 15,  1901. 

George  Harvey  Chickering,  born  April  18,  1830;  ad- 
mitted to  membership  November  7,  1894;  died  No- 
vember 17,  1899. 

John  Davis  Williams  French,  born  January  29,  1841  ; 
admitted  to  membership  March  i,  1897;  died  May  2, 
1900. 

James  Greenwood  Harris,  born  November  i,  1843;  ^d" 
mitted  to  membership  May  31,  1894;  died  May  20, 
1899. 

Frank  Allen  Hutchinson,  born  June  11,  1862;  admitted 
to  membership  May  13,  1892  ;  died  December  26,  1900. 

John  Chester  Inches,  born  June  30,  185 1;  admitted  to 
membership  December  9,  1892  ;  died  September  26, 
1901. 

Albert  Hannibal  Kelsey,  born  October  30,  181 1  ;  ad- 
mitted to  membership  June  27,  1892  ;  died  February 
28,  1901. 


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Captain  Winslow  Sever  Lincoln,  U.S.V.,  born  October 
31,  1848;  admitted  to  membership  March  15,  1894; 
died  May  25,  1902. 

Charles  Frederick  Smith,  born  March  8,  1840;  admitted 
to  membership  October  30,  1893;  died  April  18,  1899. 

Captain  Charles  Edward  Stevens,  M.V.M.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1833;  admitted  to  membership  July  8,  1895  ; 
died  September  14,  1899. 

Jonathan  Tyler  Stevens,  born  December  20,  1844;  ad- 
mitted to  membership  March  15,  1894;  died  March 
13,  1902. 

Charles  Mellen  Tillinghast,  born  September  16,  1844; 
admitted  to  membership  April  15,  1895;  died  March 
5,  1902. 

Edward  Silas  Tobey,  born  September  24,  1855  ;  admitted 
to  membership  February  19,  1894;   died  July  23,  1902. 


Jeremiah  Otis  Wetherbee,  born  January  16,  1832;  ad- 
mitted to  membership  October  24,  1891  ;  died  June  21, 
1901. 


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ACCOUNT    OF   THE    NOOK   HILL   TABLET. 

On  March  22,  1899,  the  following  petition  was  sent  to  the 
School  Board  of  the  City  of  Boston  :  — 

MASSACHUSETTS    SOCIETY    OF    SONS    OF    THE   REVOLUTION. 

Boston,  March  22J  1899. 
To  THE  School  Committee  of  the  City  of  Boston  : 

The  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Massachusetts  Society  of  Sons  of  the 
Revolution  respectfully  petition  your  honorable  body  that  permission  be 
granted  the  Society  to  place  a  bronze  tablet,  suitably  inscribed,  upon  the 
Lawrence  School,  South  Boston,  to  commemorate  the  seizing  of  Nook  Hill 
by  a  detachment  of  the  forces  under  the  command  of  General  Washington, 
March  16,  1776,  which  act  led  to  the  evacuation  of  Boston  by  the  British 
troops  on  the  following  day,  March  17. 

For  the  Board  of  Managers, 

FRANK    HARRISON    BRIGGS, 

President. 
Henry  Dexter  Warren, 
Secretary. 

The  above  petition  was  referred  on  April  1 1  to  the  Committee 
on  the  Sixth  Division,  which  reported  through  its  chairman, 
Mr.  Gallivan,  to  the  full  Board  on  April  25  that  the  committee 
was  heartily  in  favor  of  granting  the  desired  permission,  in  the 
following  words  :  "  They  believe  that  the  interest  displayed  by 
the  various  patriotic  societies  in  our  public  schools  by  this  and 
similar  gifts,  commemorative  of  events  in  our  national  history  of 
which  we  are  justly  proud,  should  be  welcomed  and  encouraged. 
Such  memorials  serve  not  only  to  adorn  our  buildingSj  but  stimu- 
late in  the  minds  and  hearts  of  the  pupils  that  love  of  country 


82  ^on^  of  tJ)e  itlebolution. 

and  reverence  for  its  history  which  tends  to  a  higher  and  more 
loyal  citizenship.  Your  committee  recommend  the  passage  of 
the  following  order  :  — 

Ordered^  That  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Massachusetts  Society  of 
Sons  of  the  Revolution  be  granted  permission  to  place  a  bronze  tablet,  suit- 
ably inscribed,  upon  the  Lawrence  School,  South  Boston,  in  accordance 
with  their  petition  of  March  22,  1899,  and  that  the  thanks  of  the  Board  be 
extended  to  them  for  their  generous  and  patriotic  gift." 

The  report  was  accepted,  and  the  order  passed. 

On  March  16,  1900,  the  tablet  was  unveiled,  and  appropriate 
exercises  were  held  in  the  hall  of  the  Lawrence  School.  There 
were  present  many  of  South  Boston's  most  prominent  citizens, 
many  of  them  graduates  of  the  school. 

The  exercises  consisted  of  music  and  declamations  by  the 
pupils  of  the  school,  and  addresses  by  Mr.  Frank  H.  Briggs, 
president  of  the  Society,  and  Mr.  J.  Carlton  Nichols,  member  of 
the  Boston  School  Board,  who  accepted  the  tablet  on  behalf  of 
that  body.  _ 

In  connection  with  this  event  it  is  proper  to  note  the  follow- 
ing facts  :  The  question  arose  as  to  whether  the  name  should  be 
"  Nook  "  or  "  Nook's  "  Hill.  Frothingham  in  his  '*  Siege  of  Bos- 
ton," Hale  in  his  article  on  the  same  subject  in  the  ''Memorial 
History  of  Boston,"  and  Simonds  in  his  "History  of  South 
Boston,"  call  it  "Nook's"  :  whereas  Bancroft,  in  his  "History  of 
the  United  States,"  mentions  it  as  "  Nook  "  Hill.  A  plan  of  Dor- 
chester Neck,  drawn  for  the  use  of  the  British  army  in  1775, 
names  it  "  Nook  "  or  "  Foster's  "  Hill, —  the  latter  name  from  the 
fact  that  a  family  named  Foster  dwelt  there.  Nook  Lane  is  also 
entered  on  the  map,  running  over  the  hill. 

On  this  map  each  house  and  tree,  by  order  of  the  British  gen- 
eral, was  also  noted  ;  and  it  shows  the  summit  of  the  hill  crowned 
by  several  trees. 

Dr.  Samuel  A.  Green,  librarian  of  the  Massachusetts  Histori- 
cal Society,  when  appealed  to,  gave  it  as  his  opinion  that  the 
name  probably  originated  from  the  fact  that  the  summit  of  the 


Wotk  of  t^t  €a6Jet  Committee.  83 

hill,  shaded  by  the  trees,  formed  a  refreshing  nook  on  a  hot  sum- 
mer day,  and  that  the  spelling  of  the  map  and  Bancroft  were 
correct. 

The  Foster  house  was  a  very  handsome,  commodious  dwelling, 
situated  between  two  elm-trees  near  the  present  corner  of  Fourth 
and  E  Streets.  The  story  is  told  that  in  the  early  days  of  the 
Revolution  several  Continental  soldiers,  who  strolled  over  to  the 
hill,  were  with  difficulty  restrained  from  destroying  the  house, 
thinking  it  belonged  to  a  Tory,  as  several  of  the  rooms  were 
papered, —  a  luxury  almost  unknown  in  those  days,  and  consid- 
ered by  them  a  sure  sign  that  the  occupant  was  a  traitor. 

It  was  left  for  the  British,  who  knew  the  occupants  as  good 
Americans,  to  accomplish  its  demolition  ;  for  on  the  night  of  the 
13th  of  February,  1776,  five  hundred  grenadiers  and  light  infan- 
try crossed  on  the  ice  from  Boston  with  the  intention  of  surpris- 
ing the  American  guard.  Foiled  in  this  attempt,  they  set  fire  to 
several  houses,  among  them  the  princely  one  of  the  Fosters. 

In  the  early  fifties  it  became  necessary  to  cut  away  the  hill, 
that  streets  might  be  laid  out  for  the  convenience  of  the  public. 
Appropriations  for  a  school-house  were  made  on  the  nth  of 
September,  1856,  to  occupy  the  site  of  the  old  fortifications  ;  and 
on  March  17,  1857,  the  eighty-first  anniversary  of  the  Evacuation 
of  Boston  by  the  British,  which  these  fortifications  made  a  neces- 
sity, was  dedicated  the  Lawrence  School,  named  for  Mr.  Amos 
Lawrence,  long  a  patron  of  the  Mather  School,  of  which  this  was 
an  offshoot. 

REVIEW   OF   THE   WORK    PREVIOUS    TO    1899. 

Since  the  24th  of  October,  1891,  the  date  of  the  first  meeting 
of  the  Society,  upon  which  occasion  a  "Tablet  Committee"  was 
appointed  whose  duty  it  should  be  to  select  sites  of  important 
events  connected  with  Revolutionary  history,  and  to  mark  them 
with  tablets  commemorative  of  those  events,  the  Society  has 
placed  eight  tablets  upon  a  like  number  of  historic  spots,  and  has, 
in  addition  to  that  feature  of  its  work,  indicated  the  location  of 


84  ^on^  of  tl)c  iSeboIution. 

the  unmarked  and  almost  forgotten  graves  of  two  of  the  fore- 
most patriots  of  the  Revolution,  by  erecting  monuments  thereon. 
The  list  of  tablets  placed  by  the  Society  prior  to  the  unveiling 
of  the  Nook  Hill  tablet,  an  account  of  which  is  given  above,  is  as 
follows  :  — 

A  bronze  tablet  on  the  site  of  the  ''  Green  Dragon  Tavern," 
on  Union  Street,  Boston.  This  was  unveiled  without  formality 
on  August  19,  1892. 

A  bronze  tablet,  placed  upon  the  "  Old  Powder  House  "  in 
Somerville,  presented  to  the  city  of  Somerville  on  November 
21,  1892,  and  accepted  by  the  city  government  on  December 
14,  1892. 

A  bronze  tablet  on  the  site  of  the  home  of  Samuel  Adams,  on 
the  corner  of  Winter  Street  and  Winter  Place,  Boston,  was 
placed  in  position  in  1893. 

A  bronze  tablet,  of  the  most  elaborate  design  ever  placed  in 
Boston  to  mark  an  historic  site,  was  unveiled  on  December  16, 
1893,  at  the  corner  of  Pearl  Street  and  Atlantic  Avenue,  to 
mark  the  location  of  Griffin's  Wharf  and  commemorate  the  de- 
struction of  the  tea,  of  which  event  the  date  last  mentioned  was 
the  one  hundred  and  twentieth  anniversary. 

On  April  2,  1898,  a  tablet  was  placed  on  the  facade  of  the 
American  House  on  Hanover  Street,  Boston,  to  mark  the  site 
of  the  home  of  Major-general  Joseph  Warren. 

On  April  19,  1898,  with  simple  but  impressive  ceremonies,  a 
granite  boulder,  with  a  memorial  tablet  of  bronze,  was  unveiled 
at  the  head  of  the  flight  of  steps  leading  down  to  the  tomb 
where  the  remains  of  Samuel  Adams  had  been  laid  away  ninety- 
five  years  before. 

A  similar  boulder  and  tablet  was  placed  upon  the  grave  of 
James  Otis,  and  dedicated  on  July  15,  1898. 

A  large  and  handsome  bronze  tablet  was  placed  on  the  home 
of  General  Rufus  Putnam,  the  founder  of  Ohio,  at  Rutland, 
Mass.,  and  was  unveiled  in  the  presence  of  the  Society  on  Sep- 
tember 17,  1898,  after  which  the  members  and  their  guests 
listened  to  a  memorable  oration  by  Senator  Hoar  on  the  life  and 


^otft  of  tt)e  €a6let  Committee.  85 

services  of  General  Putnam,  delivered  in  the  Old  Congregational 
Church. 

A  tablet  in  memory  of  William  Dawes,  Jr.,  the  first  messen- 
ger sent  by  Warren  to  warn  Hancock  and  Adams  of  the  coming 
of  the  British  troops  on  April  i8,  1775,  was  unveiled  on  April 
19,  1899. 


THE   PROPOSED    MEMORIAL 


MAJOR-GENERAL    RICHARD    MONTGOMERY, 
AT    QUEBEC,  P.Q.,    CANADA. 


An  Account  of  the  Undertaking,  and  the  Reasons  for  the  With- 
drawal OF  THE  Proposition. 

In  the  autumn  of  1900  the  Board  of  Managers  appointed  a 
Committee  for  the  purpose  of  corresponding  with  the  authorities 
in  Quebec,  relative  to  their  attitude  regarding  the  erection  of  a 
suitable  memorial  to  General  Montgomery  by  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts.  The  Com- 
mittee ascertained  from  private  sources  whether  a  petition  em- 
bodying the  plan  of  the  Committee  would  be  acceptable  to  the 
City  Council  of  Quebec  ;  and,  upon  being  assured  that  it  would 
be  eminently  proper  to  take  such  action,  a  petition  was  sent  to 
His  Worship  the  Mayor  and  the  City  Council  of  Quebec,  setting 
forth  the  desire  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  to  commemorate 
in  a  suitable  form  of  memorial  the  gallant  death  of  a  brave  Amer- 
ican officer. 

It  must  be  understood,  however,  that  this  idea  of  asking 
for  permission  to  erect  a  monument  on  foreign  soil  would  not 
have  been  considered  for  a  moment  but  for  the  fact  that  a  rough 
board  sign,  fastened  on  the  face  of  the  citadel  rock,  called  atten- 
tion to  an  event  which  added  so  much  to  the  historic  interest  of 
Quebec.  Therefore,  as  the  death  of  Montgomery  was  thus  pub- 
licly noted,  and  as  the  board  was  on  Dominion  property,  it 
seemed  eminently  proper  that  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  should 
substitute  a  dignified  monument,  and  upon  ground  belonging  to 
and  under  the  control   of  the  city  of  Quebec.     Then  again,  in 


PliACE    WHERE 

Majoe-genekal  Mon'jgomeex  fell  ^ 


5^ropD^eti  i^cmorial  to  &m.  ^^H^ontgomcrp,     87 

view  of  the  friendly  relations  now  so  much  in  evidence  between 
the  United  States  and  England,  it  was  felt  that  our  proposed 
gift  would  be  received  in  the  kindly  spirit  with  which  it  was 
offered,  and  we  could  draw  closer  the  ties  of  kinship  across  the 
border  line. 

An  important  detail  was  suggested  in  the  petition  to  the 
Mayor  and  City  Council  ;  namely,  that  the  inscription  for  the 
monument  should  be  written  by  a  Canadian. 

The  Committee  carried  on  considerable  correspondence  for 
over  a  year  with  the  officials,  through  the  able  and  courteous 
representative  of  the  United  States  government.  General  Will- 
iam W.  Henry,  consul  at  Quebec,  whose  efforts  and  untiring 
zeal  in  the  matter  deserve  the  heartiest  thanks  of  the  Society. 

Under  date  of  February  28,  1901,  the  following  letter  was 
received  from  the  Chairman  of  the  Road  Committee :  — 

Quebec,  28th  February,  1901. 

Dear  Si'r, —  At  a  meeting  of  the  Road  Committee  of  the  Quebec  Cor- 
poration held  last  evening,  I  brought  up  the  case  of  the  Montgomery 
Tablet ;  and  I  am  pleased  to  say  every  member  present  considered  the  pro- 
jected improvement  to  the  locality  favorably.  It  will  be  recommended  to 
the  Council  at  its  next  meeting,  and  I  have  not  the  least  doubt  will  be  in- 
dorsed. You  can,  in  the  mean  time,  let  your  friends  know  ;  and  later  I  will 
report  progress  to  you.  Anything  else  in  connection  with  the  matter  I  shall 
be  pleased  to  give  my  attention  to  ;  and,  wishing  you  every  success,  I  remain, 

Yours  sincerely, 

THOMAS    NORRIS. 

On  April  3  the  following  letter  and  official  permit  for  the 
erection  of  a  memorial  to  General  Montgomery  was  sent  to 
Consul  Henry :  — 

Quebec,  April  3,  1901. 
To  the  Honorable,  General  Henry, 

United  States  Consul,  Quebec: 
Dear  Sz'r, —  I  have  the  honor  to  send  you  herewith  copy  of  the  Reso- 
lution (with  documents  annexed  therewith)  adopted  last  night  by  the  City 
Council  of  Quebec,  granting  to  the  Society  of  Sons  of  the  Revolution  of 
the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  the  permission  which  they  have 
solicited  from  the   Council   to  erect  a  Memorial  Tablet  to  General  Mont- 


88  M>m^  of  tf)e  idebolution, 

gomery.     As  the   request  of  the   Society  has  been  laid  before  the  City 
Council  through  your  kind  action  as  intermediary,  I  have  much  pleasure  in 
requesting  you  to  forward  the  Society  the  documents  which  give  them  the 
right  to  proceed  with  the  execution  of  their  cherished  idea. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be 

Your  obedient  servant, 

H.  J.  J.  B.  CHOUINARD, 

City  Clerk. 

City  of   Quebec,  City  Hall. 
City  Clerk's  Office. 

Quebec,  April  3,  1901. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  City  Council  held  on  Tuesday,  the  2d  of  April,  nine- 
teen hundred  and  one  (1901),      It  was  unanimously 

Resolved^  That  this  council  adopts  the  conclusions  of  the  1128th 
Report  of  the  Road  Committee,  and  confirms  and  approves  anew  the  Re- 
port of  the  Special  Committee  hi  re  Montgomery  memorial  already  adopted 
by  this  Council  on  the  nth  of  January,  1895,  and  annexed  to  the  present 
Report  of  the  Road  Committee. 

That,  inasmuch  as  it  is  in  their  power  to  do  so,  this  Council  do  hereby 
grant  permission  to  erect  the  said  memorial  tablet  to  General  Montgomery, 
at  the  spot  mentioned  in  said  reports,  subject  to  the  following  conditions, 
that  the  selection  of  site  therefor,  the  plans  of  the  memorial  tablet,  and 
(above  all)  the  inscription  shall  be  those  approved  of  by  this  Council. 
Certified  a  true  copy, 
[Seal.]  H.  J.  J.  B.  CHOUINARD, 

City  Clerk. 

The  following  inscription  for  the  memorial  was  written  by  Dr. 
G.  W.  Parmelee,  Deputy  Chief  of  the  Education  Department  of 
the  Province  of  Quebec,  and  received  most  cordial  approval  from 
the  City  Government  of  Quebec  and  the  General  Montgomery 
Memorial  Committee  :  — 


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^ropo^eti  pLtxnmd  to  oBen.  J^ontgomerp^     89 

HERE  FELL 

RICHARD   MONTGOMERY, 

A  GENERAL  OF  THE  CONTINENTAL  ARMY, 

WHO,  ON  DECEMBER  31ST,  1775, 

MET  HIS  DEATH 

WHILST  LEADING  GALLANT   MEN 

AGAINST  A  GALLANT  FOE. 

THE  SOCIETY  OF  SONS  OF  THE   REVOLUTION 

IN  THE  COMMONWEALTH   OF   MASSACHUSETTS, 

BY   PERMISSION  OF   THE   CITY  OF  QUEBEC, 

HAS   PLACED  THIS  TABLET 

TO   MARK   AN    HISTORIC  SITE 

AND  TO    RECORD  THE   FRIENDLY   RELATIONS 

BETWEEN  TWO   NATIONS   NOW   LONG  AT  PEACE. 

Major  Parent  suggested  to  General  Henry  that  it  would  be  a 
courtesy  highly  appreciated  if  a  vessel  of  the  United  States 
Navy  could  be  present  at  the  dedication ;  and,  upon  communi- 
cating with  the  Department  at  Washington,  the  following  letter 
was  received :  — 

December  26,  1901. 
Sz'r, —  The  receipt  is  acknowledged  of  your  letter  of  December  20,  1901, 
requesting  that  a  United  States  vessel  be  ordered  to  Quebec,  to  be  present 
on  the  occasion  of  the  unveiling  of  the  memorial  to  General  Richard  Mont- 
gomery, which  is  to  occur  about  June  15,  1902.  The  Department  will 
hold  in  mind  your  request,  and  will  be  pleased  to  assign  a  vessel  to  be 
present  on  that  occasion  if  the  exigencies  of  the  service  permit  it  at  that 
time.  With  this  in  view,  it  is  suggested  that,  when  the  date  for  the  un- 
veiling is  fixed,  you  will  inform  the  Department  and  renew  the  request. 

Very  respectfully, 

J.  D.  LONG, 

Secretary. 

In  January,  1902,  the  chairman  of  the  Committee  went  to 
Quebec,  and  by  request  of  Major  Parent  selected  the  site  of 
the  proposed  monument,  which  selection  was  indorsed  by  the 
city  engineer. 

The  Chevalier  Charles    Bailliarg^,  ex-city  engineer,  and  one 


90  ^on^  of  tl)e  iflebolution. 

of  the  most  enthusiastic  admirers  of  General  Montgomery, 
tendered  his  services  to  the  Society ;  and  his  very  generous  offer 
was  gratefully  accepted,  for  it  was  intended  that  the  stone-work 
should  be  done  in  Quebec,  and  for  many  reasons  Mr.  Bailliarge's 
advice  and  general  oversight  of  the  work  would  have  been  in- 
valuable. 

To  Miss  Josephine  Wright  Chapman  the  Society  is  indebted 
for  the  design  for  the  memorial,  which  met  with  unanimous 
approval. 

While  this  preparatory  work  was  being  carried  on,  the  Com- 
mittee received  a  number  of  communications  from  private  in- 
dividuals objecting  to  the  proposed  memorial,  also  several  "  reso- 
lutions "  of  like  tenor  passed  by  societies  in  Canada,  as  well 
as  marked  copies  of  the  press  of  Canada ;  but,  as  the  greater 
portion  of  these  protests  came  from  the  Province  of  Ontario, 
and  as  Major  Parent  had  been  equally  favored,  and  failed  to  see 
any  reason  why  these  protests  should  be  heeded,  the  Committee 
kept  on  with  the  plan ;  but,  eventually,  in  order  to  obtain 
information  as  to  the  state  of  public  opinion  in  Quebec  itself, 
certain  parties  were  appealed  to  by  the  Committee,  and  the 
result  showed  that,  while  the  Society  was  justified  in  proceeding, 
so  far  as  the  city  government  was  concerned,  it  did  not  have  the 
cordial  approval  of  the  citizens  as  a  whole. 

The  Committee  felt  that  it  was  the  wiser  plan  to  withdraw 
from  its  position,  and  defer  the  matter  to  some  future  time ; 
and,  in  accordance  with  this  resolve,  the  following  letter  was 
sent  to  Major  Parent :  — 

Boston,  February  20,  1902. 
His  W^orship,  The  Mayor  of  Quebec, 
The  Honorable,  The  City  Council: 

Gentlemen^ — At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Society  of 
Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  held  on 
Wednesday,  the  19th  inst,  it  was  voted  to  "withdraw"  the  proposition 
for  a  memorial  to  Major-general  Richard  Montgomery,  to  be  erected  in 
the  city  of  Quebec,  and  to  be  presented  to  its  citizens,  not  only  to  mark  an 
historic  site,  but  to  commemorate  "  the  friendly  relations  between  two 
nations  now  long  at  peace." 


^ropo^eti  ^^^motial  to  <(5m.  St^ontgometp.     91 

Some  explanation  is  due  respecting  the  conception  of  the  idea  to  erect 
this  memorial  to  General  Montgomery  and  on  foreign  soil. 

The  citadel  cliff  bears  on  its  face  a  large  board  with  these  words  :  — 

HERE    MONTGOMERY    FELL 

December  31,  1775. 

And  this  crude  marking  of  an  historic  event  gave  birth  to  the  idea  that  at 
least  some  steps  might  be  taken  to  learn  the  attitude  of  the  proper  and 
duly  constituted  authorities  respecting  such  a  gift  to  the  city  of  Quebec 
of  a  suitable  and  dignified  monument  to  replace  the  present  imperfect 
tablet. 

It  was  intimated  through  the  proper  channels  that  a  petition  from  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution  would  be  acceptable  to  your  City  Government; 
and,  in  accordance  with  the  information,  such  a  petition  was  presented, 
and  received  your  unanimous  support. 

Meanwhile,  through  the  medium  of  the  press  and  by  letters  sent  to  the 
officers  of  our  Society,  we  became  aware  that  some  opposition  was  felt  to 
this  plan  ;  but  the  tenor  of  the  larger  part  of  these  communications  was 
of  such  a  nature  as  not  to  call  for  serious  consideration,  and  we  may  also  add 
that  all  agitation  seemed  to  emanate  principally  from  points  outside  of 
Quebec. 

Recently,  however,  we  have  received  from  sources  which  we  cannot 
ignore  private  advice  as  to  the  state  of  public  opinion  in  Quebec  which 
seems  to  reflect  the  attitude  of  that  portion  of  the  community  whose  feel- 
ings we  desire  to  respect,  and  especially  as  it  had  never  occurred  to  us  to 
antagonize,  by  any  act  of  ours,  the  people  of  our  own  blood  and  race.  It 
seems  evident  that  a  matter  which  had  been  conceived  in  all  honor  and 
friendship  might  produce  discord  ;  and,  while  we  deeply  appreciate  the 
courtesy  and  co-operation  indicated  by  your  Honorable  Body  in  the  grant- 
ing of  our  petition,  we  deem  it  essential  to  the  carrying  out  of  our  plan 
that  it  should  have  the  cordial  support  of  the  Canadian  people  as  a 
whole.  This,  we  feel  assured,  we  do  not  possess.  We  therefore  beg 
leave  to  withdraw  our  proposition,  meanwhile  awaiting  that  happier  day 
when  both  peoples  may  unite  in  commemorating  the  brave  deeds  of  men 
who  have  left  us  the  common  heritage  of  their  fame. 

We  have  the  honor  to  be,  with  every  assurance  of  our  sincere  regard, 
Your  obedient  servants,  etc., 

WALTER  GILMAN   PAGE, 

Chairman^ 
DESMOND  FITZGERALD, 
EDWIN  BIRCHARD  COX, 

Montgomery  Memorial  Committee. 


^^^^^^^7^    (^Am^ , 


y.v .  Lk').\aj{Jj   Iv'ii'i'  Si(jj{its,  I)J). 


atiDte^siesi. 


ADDRESS    OF 

CAPTAIN   RICHMOND  PEARSON   HOBSON,  U.S.N. 

Delivered  before  the  Society  at  its  Eleventh  Annual 

Dinner,  at  the  Hotel  Somerset,  Boston, 

April  19,  1902. 

I  wish  to  thank  you  very  heartily  for  this  warm  and  generous 
greeting.  It  touches  me  very  deeply.  I  consider  it  a  great 
privilege  and  a  great  honor  to  be  allowed  to  come  and  join  with 
you  in  this  annual  dinner,  and  I  cannot  express  my  feelings 
when  you  give  me  such  warm  and  generous  applause  and  such 
hearty  greeting.  I  think  that  the  privilege  is  doubled  to  come 
to  your  glorious  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  and  every 
time  I  come  I  see  more  and  more  of  the  manifestation  of  public 
spirit  permeating  this  glorious  Commonwealth.  I  think  it  a 
special  privilege  to  come  here  on  this  anniversary,  celebrating 
as  it  does  the  inauguration  of  the  Revolution  which  was  the 
beginning  of  the  Republic. 

I  think,  however,  that,  on  such  an  occasion,  at  least  one  fitting 
form  of  celebration  is  that  of  taking  a  retrospect, —  not  only 
recognizing  the  glory  and  the  value  of  the  deeds  of  our  fore- 
fathers, but  also  recognizing  the  position  in  which  their  deeds, 
and  the  deeds  that  followed,  have  left  us  to-day.  In  other 
words,  there  should  be  more  than  merely  sentimental  apprecia- 
tion of  the  past.  A  day  like  this  must,  to  me,  have  inspiration 
for  action  ;  and,  in  order  that  we  should  continually  appreciate 
what  are  the  possibilities  of  action  for  us,  in  these  later  days,  to 
be  in  keeping  with  the  actions  of  our  fathers  and  forefathers,  I 
think  it  is  fitting  that  we  should  stop  a  moment,  to  try  to  gain 
this  perception  and  to  try  to  realize  where  our  country  stands 
to-day. 


96  ^on^  of  tl)e  iSeboIution* 

What  are  the  duties  of  us  of  the  twentieth  century  in  ex- 
panding our  country's  history  ?  In  the  past  I  see  three  wave 
crests,  so  to  speak.  The  first  is  the  one  which  we  celebrate 
to-night.  Our  forefathers,  numbering  but  three  and  a  half 
milHons  of  people,  less  than  the  population  of  New  York  City 
to-day,  scattered  along,  as  they  were,  the  thousand  miles  of 
inclement  coast  line,  and  struggling  to  found  their  homes  in  the 
presence  of  the  savage  Indians,  did  not  hesitate  to  take  up  arms 
against  the  mightiest  military  power  the  world  has  ever  seen ; 
and,  with  indomitable  courage,  with  a  devotion  that  counted  no 
cost,  with  a  determination  that  would  not  stop  short  of  complete 
success,  they  won  the  liberty  of  America. 

The  second  wave  crest  that  appears  before  my  mind  is  that 
great  crisis  when,  after  more  than  three-quarters  of  a  century, 
the  institutions  which  had  been  transmitted  to  us  by  the 
founders  of  this  Repubhc  came  to  be  recast  and  remoulded.  It 
is  no  detraction  from  the  glory  of  the  founders  of  this  Republic 
or  the  framers  of  the  Constitution  ;  for  they  saw  and  recognized 
that  a  Constitution  could  not,  at  that  time,  be  prepared  and 
framed  that  would  apply  to  all  time,  that  there  were  elements  of 
dross,  so  to  speak,  in  our  institutions,  and  in  our  constitution, 
dross  that  had  to  be  eliminated  and  burned  out  by  the  fiercest 
fire  before  we  could  have  a  perfect  freedom  and  a  perfectly 
cemented  and  united  union.  This  second  crest  is  the  Civil  War. 
I  think  we  can  all,  to-day,  recognize  the  necessity,  the  sociologi- 
cal necessity,  of  that  war, —  recognize  that  both  sides  fought  for 
principle ;  that,  if  the  Northerners  had  lived  in  the  South,  they 
would  have  done  precisely  as  the  Southerners  did  ;  that,  if  the 
Southerners  had  lived  in  the  North,  they  would  not  have  been 
true  Americans,  had  they  not  done  as  the  Northerners  did,  and 
prevented  the  South  from  seceding.  And  thus  we  can  look 
with  equal  pride  to-day,  Americans  all,  upon  the  glorious  deeds 
of  that  generation,  which  stand  worthily  on  a  level  with  those 
of  the  generation  of  the  Revolution.  Aye,  I  think  that  we  can- 
not adequately  appreciate  our  country  without  recognizing  the 
necessity  for  that  Civil  War,  and  appreciating  the  height  and 


9ltitire^^  of  Capt.  l^ofi^on.  97 

the  depth  of  the  sacrifice  and  devotion  of  our  fathers,  both  in 
the  Northern  and  in  the  Southern  armies,  in  prosecuting  that 
war  to  its  end. 

So  was  our  glorious  Republic  founded,  and  so  were  its  insti- 
tutions purified ;  and  to-day  we  find  ourselves  a  united  and 
mighty  nation,  such  as  never  before  has  arisen  in  the  history  of 
the  world. 

And  the  third  wave  crest  that  I  see  is  that  upon  which  we 
stand  to-day, —  a  time  which,  to  my  mind,  has  greater  signifi- 
cance for  this  planet,  this  earth  of  ours,  than  that  when  the 
Roman  Empire  arose  and  held  its  sway  around  the  Mediter- 
ranean, more  significance  than  that  when  the  Saxon  tribes  laid 
the  foundations  for  the  British  Empire,  which  in  three  centuries 
has  pushed  its  sway  around  the  earth.  I  sincerely  believe  that 
there  are  higher  possibilities  for  the  domain  of  America  than  for 
the  domain  that  has  grown  out  from  the  British  Isles. 

Now  I  think  it  is  well  worth  our  while,  as  business  men  and 
as  men  of  action,  emulating  the  example  of  our  forefathers,  who 
considered  and  recognized  the  situations  which  confronted  them, — 
I  think  it  is  well  worth  our  while  to  pause  for  a  few  moments ; 
to  stop  and  examine  into  the  fundamental  principles,  and  con- 
sider the  great  factors  that  underlie  and  justify  our  expectations 
for  the  future  of  this  country  ;  to  stop  and  gauge,  as  it  were, 
the  relative  position  of  our  nation  among  the  nations  of  the 
earth  ;  and  to  look  abroad  and  around  the  earth,  and  see  what  are 
the  possibilities  of  this  glorious  country  of  ours. 

The  first  element  of  a  nation's  greatness  is  its  population. 
We  have  to-day  about  eighty-four  million  in  America.  Leaving 
out  subjugated  peoples,  the  next  largest  nation  abroad  has  but 
fifty-six  million, —  Germany  ;  Great  Britain,  in  her  whole  empire, 
less  than  fifty  million ;  Austria,  less  than  forty-five  milhon ; 
France,  less  than  thirty-five  million.  I  am  not  speaking  of 
Russia  just  now,  because,  although  she  does  lead  off  in  numbers, 
we  need  scarcely  mention  her  as  a  power  alongside  of  our 
country.  Thus  we  find  that  America  has  nearly  twice  the  pop- 
ulation of  the  great  world  powers  of  Europe,  with  from  twelve 


98  ^on^  of  tf)e  iSeboIution^ 

to  fifteen  times  the  area  for  expansion  without  exceeding  the 
density  of  population  of  the  average  nation  abroad.  In  other 
words,  while  we  are  twice  the  size  in  quantity,  we  have  ten  times 
the  possibility  for  quantity  in  the  future. 

As  to  quality,  the  factor  which  goes  with  quantity,  we  find 
that  Americans,  alongside  of  foreigners,  really  stand,  man  for 
man,  ahead  of  them  all,  in  a  class  by  themselves.  It  is  a  statis- 
tical fact  that  the  average  height  of  Americans  is  five  feet  eight 
inches,  while  the  average  Englishman  is  five  feet  seven  inches, 
and  the  average  Englishman  is  taller  than  the  average  German, 
and  the  average  German  looks  over  the  head  of  the  average 
Frenchman.  The  German  is  more  bulky.  He  is  the  heaviest 
man  in  the  world,  and  the  Englishman  stands  next  ;  but  that 
does  not  count  to  his  betterment.  The  American  is  the  man  of 
all  the  nations  who  has  in  this  free  life  and  on  this  glorious  free 
continent  of  ours  developed  into  the  finest  specimen  of  vigor. 

Take  him  mentally.  It  is  hard  to  give  a  relative  value  to 
the  mental  vigor  of  a  people,  but  we  may  get  some  indication  of 
the  degree  of  mental  development  by  the  efforts  made  to 
develop  mind  by  education.  We  spend  more  than  one  hundred 
and  ninety-five  million  dollars  per  year  upon  the  public  schools 
alone,  amounting  to  over  ^2.40  per  capita.  In  England,  for  all 
educational  purposes,  the  expenditure  per  capita  is  a  little  less 
than  ^1.85.  Germany  comes  next,  and  the  Germans  are  far 
ahead  of  all  the  other  peoples. 

Perhaps  the  best  indication  of  this  mental  vigor,  which  more 
or  less  involves  the  physical  vigor  also,  is  seen  in  the  results  of 
its  application.  Now  take,  for  instance,  the  average  man,  in 
vigorous  capacities  in  America  and  abroad,  in  the  way  of  produc- 
tiveness. It  is  a  statistical  fact  that  agriculturists  in  America 
produce  three  times  as  much  as  agriculturists  in  England,  four 
times  as  much  as  those  of  France,  five  times  as  much  as  those  of 
Germany,  and  six  times  as  much  as  those  of  Austria,  Hungary, 
or  Italy.  The  average  mechanic  on  locomotive  work  turns  out 
twice  as  much  product  in  a  given  time  as  the  mechanic  on  the 
same  class  of  work  in  England. 


mtire^^  of  €apt.  i^oti^on.  99 

The  fact  is,  man  for  man,  put  the  American  side  by  side  with 
the  foreign  competitor,  with  equal  chances  anywhere  in  the  world, 
and  he  will  get  up  earlier  in  the  morning  and  will  work  all  day 
harder  than  any  of  them.  He  fulfils  all  the  promise  of  a  supe- 
rior vigor  of  mind,  as  well  as  of  body,  I  have  not  gone  further 
into  details,  although  you  can  work  them  out  to  startling 
results. 

If  you  take  the  statistics  on  distribution,  the  comparison  with 
other  nations  is  more  striking.  We  have  more  than  two  hundred 
thousand  miles  of  railway,  while  Germany  has  but  thirty-two 
thousand,  and  Russia,  with  the  great  Siberian  railway,  but  twenty- 
nine  thousand. 

England  is  the  great  commercial  competitor  of  America,  yet 
England  has  nothing  in  the  way  of  natural  advantages  like  those 
of  America.  She  has  no  such  rivers,  no  such  lakes,  no  such 
bays  and  harbors.  I  must  say,  in  this  connection,  that  we 
should  not  fail  to  realize  the  element  of  weakness  in  our  failure 
to  possess  a  great  merchant  marine.  I  think  we  should  have  our 
eyes  wide  open  to  this  fact,  that  we  do  not  control  the  means  of 
transporting  our  products  across  the  seas.  Like  any  corporation, 
we  should  not  be  at  the  mercy  of  another  corporation.  We 
should  never  allow  a  mighty  corporation  like  the  United  States 
of  America  to  be  at  the  mercy  of  other  agencies  to  transport  its 
products  across  the  seas. 

Now  this  is  not  a  partisan  question.  It  has  no  bearing  upon 
whether  Democrats  or  Republicans  propose  the  best  measures 
for  remedying  this  weakness.  The  fact  is  that  we  are  in  a  com- 
paratively weak  condition  as  long  as  we  have  not  a  great  mer- 
chant marine. 

Compare  the  American  spiritually  with  the  average  foreigner, 
and  see  what  results  we  arrive  at.  I  have  looked  up  some  com- 
parative figures  as  to  religious  societies,  such,  for  instance,  as 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  the  Epworth  League, 
the  Christian  Endeavorers,  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew,  and 
I  find  that  we  have  one  hundred  thousand  more  members  of  such 
societies  in  the  United  States  than  there  are  in  all  the  rest  of  the 
world  combined, 


100  ^on^  of  tt)e  itebolution. 

You  will  find  the  same  thing  applies  everywhere  else.  Do 
you  know,  or  have  you  ever  remarked  or  noted,  that,  wherever 
there  is  a  national  calamity,  like  a  famine  in  Russia  or  Egypt  or 
anywhere  else,  the  first  food  ships  sail  away  from  America  ? 
Have  you  ever  thought  that,  in  this  last  war,  America  should, 
by  the  ordinary  usages  of  war,  have  reduced  Santiago  by  starva- 
tion ?  And  what  did  she  do  ?  Instead  of  reducing  them  by 
hunger,  she  invited  the  non-combatants  to  come  into  our  lines, 
and  help  eat  up  the  rations  of  our  soldiers.  We  should  have 
ravaged  the  coast  of  Spain,  and  with  our  foot  upon  the  prostrate 
foe  demanded  four  or  five  hundred  millions  of  dollars  indemnity. 
Take  the  war  of  Germany  against  France.  They  marched 
across  French  territory,  reduced  it  to  utter  subjugation,  and  then 
demanded  over  a  billion  dollars  indemnity.  We,  on  the  contrary, 
invited  our  defeated  foe  to  come  to  neutral  territory  and  talk  the 
matter  over ;  and  we  ended  by  paying  defeated  Spain  twenty 
millions  of  dollars. 

I  really  believe  that  this  glorious,  royal  life  of  ours,  which  has 
added  just  one  inch  to  the  stature  of  our  men  physically,  has  as 
well  made  them,  mentally  and  spiritually,  the  giants  among  the 
peoples  of  the  earth. 

Now  I  must  also  touch  on  what  you  might  call  the  factor  of 
effective  co-operation.  I  will  not  go  into  particulars,  though  you 
will  notice  probably  more  than  I  have  that  in  organizations  in 
America  there  is  a  business-like  directness  of  purpose  that 
eliminates  shams  and  hollowness  and  red  tape,  and  goes  directly 
for  the  object  and  the  purpose  that  tends  to  efficiency  and  reduc- 
tion of  cost,  that  starts  in  business  at  once,  and  in  a  short 
space  of  time  grows  into  great  corporations  that  govern  the 
prices  of  the  world's  commodities.  There  are  no  such  corpora- 
tions among  other  peoples.  The  fact  is  that  New  York  and 
Chicago  are  rapidly  superseding  London  and  Liverpool  as  the 
financial  and  commercial  centres  of  the  world. 

Now,  in  public  co-operation,  let  me  point  out, —  and  this  is 
really  the  most  significant  part  of  the  subject, —  let  me  point  out 
that  special  co-operation  which  grows  out  of    our  institutions. 


Sttitire^^  of  €apt.  i^ob^on.  101 

and,  therefore,  without  going  into  a  comparison  of  our  judicial 
and  legislative  systems  with  those  of  other  countries,  let  me 
make  a  broad,  comprehensive  statement.  In  America,  you 
might  say,  we  are  completely  free.  Take  any  other  country, 
the  most  liberal  in  Europe,  and  it  falls  far  behind  us  in  this 
respect.  European  society  has  been  evolved  by  a  succession  of 
waves,  one  wave  after  another.  Its  people  lived  first  as  con- 
queror and  conquered,  then  as  lord  and  serf ;  and  to-day  the  bulk 
of  the  population  is,  in  the  lowest  stratum,  the  peasantry.  We 
may  see  that  the  average  American  is  socially  ahead  of  the  aver- 
age European,  without  any  further  comparison,  by  simply  recall- 
ing that  the  average  European  is  a  peasant,  and  that  there  is  no 
such  thing  as  an  American  peasant.  Abroad,  men  live  and  die  in 
the  social  strata  in  which  they  were  born,  and  most  of  them  are 
born  peasants.  It  is  only  in  our  own  country  that  the  body 
social  and  body  politic  is  homogeneous,  and  men  and  women  rise 
and  fall,  and  seek  their  social  level  according  to  their  specific 
gravity. 

Again,  those  same  conditions  that  have  evolved  the  social 
status  of  Europe  have  left  the  nations  there  armed  foes.  They 
are  perpetually  in  a  state  of  menacing  or  of  being  menaced. 
War  and  warfare  and  militarism  constitute  the  largest  factor  in 
their  policy,  and  moulds  and  determines  the  characters  and 
minds  of  their  men  and  women.  That  is  self-evident  to  any  one 
who  recalls  the  conditions  abroad.  The  drum  and  the  bugle  is 
going  all  the  time,  and  every  young  man  is  forced  into  the  ranks 
with  the  dream  of  marching  invading  armies  across  the  terri- 
tories of  their  neighbors. 

See  the  contrast  in  America  !  We  are  never  much  impressed 
by  the  sight  of  uniforms  or  military  organizations.  We  really 
do  not  have  enough  of  them  to  keep  them  from  being  curi- 
osities. People  run  out  into  the  street  to  hear  the  drums  and 
see  the  soldiers  pass.  None  of  us  have  any  desire  to  see  our 
troops  marching  over  the  territories  of  our  neighbors ;  and, 
surely,  none  of  us  ever  dreamed,  even  in  a  nightmare,  that  our 
neighbors   would  ever  march   their  armies   over    our   territory. 


102  ^on^  of  tl)e  ilebolution* 

No,  in  this  America,  with  its  homogeneous  society,  this  average 
American  is  attending  to  his  own  business.  He  is  Hving  accord- 
ing to  rules  that  are  determined  by  a  hfe  of  peace,  with  peaceful 
activities  and  peaceful  policies. 

Moreover,  in  a  general  way,  you  might  say  that  we  had  hit 
upon  the  one  universally  effective  method  or  system  of  govern- 
mental institutions.  Our  great  federal  government  takes  care 
of  all  things  that  involve  the  interests  of  all  the  nation ;  but  it 
leaves  to  the  State  governments  the  management  of  their  in- 
ternal affairs,  and  the  State  governments,  in  their  turn,  leave 
local  matters  to  the  county  or  town  governments. 

So  America  has  gone  ahead,  attending  to  its  own  affairs,  de- 
veloping itself  along  all  these  lines,  and  avoiding  all  foreign 
comphcations,  until  the  nations  of  Europe  have  got  into  the 
habit  of  shaping  their  foreign  policies  without  taking  account  of 
America.  They  have  struggled  to  preserve  an  equipoise  or 
balance  of  power,  one  nation  offsetting  another.  When  this 
balance  tends  to  be  disturbed,  they  make  new  alliances,  some- 
times dual  and  sometimes  triple  alliances,  but  without  taking 
America  into  account. 

But  see  what  are  the  possibilities  of  America  in  the  matter 
of  holding  the  balance  of  power  and  the  casting  vote  in  the 
nations'  coming  councils.  We  are  three  thousand  miles  away 
from  the  nearest  power,  with  the  seas  between  us.  We  need 
never  fear  any  armies.  No  nation  can  menace  us  or  threaten 
our  national  existence.  Do  not  let  us  lose  sight  of  the  fact, 
however,  that  they  can  menace  us  on  the  seas.  Is  it  not  evi- 
dent that  we  must  have  a  mighty  navy .?  If  we  have  a  mighty 
navy,  we  can  play  the  role  of  arbitrator,  to  dictate  peace  to  all 
the  earth.  Moreover,  without  essaying  to  meddle  with  the  af- 
fairs of  others,  we  can  go  forth  over  the  earth  to  exercise  the 
role, —  as  I  believe  we  are  called  upon  by  high  Heaven  to  exer- 
cise,—  the  role  of  the  champion  of  free  institutions.  And,  to 
make  my  meaning  more  precise,  there  are  four  hundred  million 
Chinese  to-day  whose  happiness  and  destiny  is  to  be  determined 
and  is  being  determined  by  the  white  powers.     On    the  broad, 


aititire^^  of  €apu  l^oB^on.  103 

recognized  principle  that  we  have  a  right  to  an  equal  chance  in 
the  coming  opening  of  the  markets  of  China,  we  can  see  to  it 
that  China  shall  not  be  partitioned,  and  that  all  nations  shall 
recognize  that  we,  like  our  fathers,  would  not  overstep  the 
bounds  of  our  responsibilities  or  our  duties.  Nor  do  I  believe 
that  we  should  stop  short  of  the  practical  opportunities  of  our 
power.  We  can  say  —  and,  I  believe,  should  say  —  that  China 
shall  be  opened  up  as  Japan  was  opened  up, —  by  the  American 
method,  which  does  not  involve  the  subjugation  of  the  people. 
We  are  called  upon,  at  the  beginning  of  this  twentieth  century, 
to  set  a  new  example  in  the  method  of  treatment  of  the  yellow 
and  black  races  by  the  dominant  white  race.  We  have  set  a 
beautiful  example  in  Cuba.  Think  of  our  country  giving  Cuba 
her  freedom,  and  then  stepping  out  and  letting  her  manage  her 
own  affairs !  It  is  incomprehensible  to  the  nations  abroad. 
Aye,  shall  we  not,  in  an  effective  way,  with  all  carefulness, 
bringing  conscientiousness  to  bear,  irrespective  of  politics  in 
every  form, —  shall  we  not  work  out  for  these  millions  of  the 
yellow  race  in  distant  Asia  the  highest  possibilities,  irrespective 
of  any  national  or  race  ambitions  of  our  own .?  Shall  we  not  see 
to  it  that  these  four  hundred  million  of  Chinese  have  all  the 
opportunities  for  development  and  progress  that  come  only  to 
men  who  are  born  and  bred  free  ? 

And,  my  friends,  I  believe  that  this  principle  is  fundamental, 
and  that  upon  it  depends,  in  largest  measure,  our  own  commer- 
cial prosperity.  I  believe  that  the  British  Empire  is  spreading 
over  the  earth  in  a  degree  beyond  that  of  other  nations  which 
have  attempted  to  colonize,  because  it  studies  and  promotes  the 
interests  and  welfare  of  the  people  under  its  rule.  There  is 
material  advantage  for  us,  as  for  all  the  other  nations,  in  having 
every  section  of  the  human  race  enjoy  a  maximum  of  happiness 
and  the  highest  possible  standard  of  life  and  prosperity. 

For  illustration :  We  have  eight  hundred  million  dollars  worth 
of  commerce  with  the  British  Isles  every  year,  largely  due  to  the 
fact  that  there  is  a  high  standard  of  comfort  in  that  nation.  An 
injury  to  that  nation  would  be  a  direct  commercial  injury  to  us. 


104  <:Son^  of  tlje  itlebolution. 

In  like  manner  an  injury  to  France  or  an  injury  to  Germany 
would  be  an  injury  to  us  ;  and,  to  put  it  in  a  broad  statement,  an 
injury  to  any  part  of  the  human  race  works  injury  to  the  whole 
human  race. 

I  believe  that  the  time  has  come  for  a  new  order  of  things 
in  the  way  that  nations  treat  each  other.  The  actual  advantage 
comes,  not  by  doing  injury  to  and  reducing  the  happiness  of 
others,  but  in  helping  others.  This  is  the  thought  I  would  leave. 
For  us,  the  Americans  of  the  twentieth  century,  to  be  worthy 
of  the  men  who  fought  at  Lexington  and  Concord,  to  be  worthy 
of  those  who  served  under  Lee  and  under  Grant,  to  be  worthy 
of  those  who  went  into  the  wilderness,  brought  it  under  their 
dominion,  and  made  it  the  mighty  nation  it  is, —  to  be  worthy  of 
our  inheritance,  we  should,  like  our  fathers,  be  men  of  action. 
We  should  not,  by  devoting  our  entire  attention  to  our  own 
affairs,  allow  an  incidental  weakness,  so  to  speak,  of  our  institu- 
tions. The  individual,  while  attending  to  his  own  affairs,  must 
also  attend  to  those  of  the  community,  of  the  State,  and  of  the 
nation.  We  should  take  an  interest  in  those  affairs, —  an  in- 
terest in  local  politics,  in  State  politics,  in  National  politics. 
Each  individual  must,  while  devoting  his  most  thorough  energies 
to  useful  productiveness,  endeavor  to  make  his  influence  felt  as 
far  as  it  can  be,  keeping  his  ideals  broad,  and  his  eye  clear,  and  his 
heart  pure,  daring  to  make  his  imprint  on  his  generation.  He 
should  take  account,  not  only  of  the  internal  policies  and  tariff 
policies  which  affect  his  personal  business  affairs,  but  also  of  the 
Nation's  foreign  policies.  To  be  worthy  of  our  ancestors  and  the 
inheritance  which  they  have  left  us,  we  should  take  thought,  and 
see  to  it  that  this  glorious  America,  down  the  coming  ages  and 
in  the  coming  generations,  shall  make  her  influence  felt  for  good, 
and  shall  render  a  maximum  of  useful  service  to  the  entire 
human  race. 


MEETINGS    OF   THE   SOCIETY. 


October 

I, 

1891. 

October 

9. 

1891. 

March 

17, 

1892 

June 

17, 

1892 

October      19,  1892. 

March         17,  1893. 
June  16,  1893. 


March 
April 


April 


17,  1894. 
19,  1895. 


20,  1895. 


April  19,  1896. 

April  19,  1897. 

April  19,  1898. 

December    2,  1898, 


April  19,  1899. 

January  17,  1900. 

March  6,  1900. 

April  19,  1900. 

November  27,  1900. 

February  15,  1901. 

April  19,  1901. 


April 


19,  1902. 


Society  organized  in  Faneuil  Hall. 

Society  incorporated  under  the  Laws  of  the  Commonwealth 
of  Massachusetts. 

First  Annual  Dinner,  Young's  Hotel. 

Complimentary  Concert  tendered  the  Society  by  Past  As- 
sistant Surgeon  J.  W.  Baker,  U.S.N.,  on  board  United 
States  receiving  ship  "  Wabash,"  at  the  Navy  Yard,  Bos- 
ton, Mass. 

Celebration  of  the  Anniversary  of  the  Surrender  of  Com- 
wallis.  Dinner  at  Young's  Hotel. 

Second  Annual  Dinner,  Young's  Hotel. 

Luncheon  at  Parker  House,  given  in  honor  of  the  Delegates 
to  the  Triennial  Convention  of  the  Society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati. 

Third  Annual  Dinner,  Young's  Hotel. 

Fourth  Annual  Dinner,  Algonquin  Club.  The  General 
Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution  held  its  Annual  Conven- 
tion in  Boston,  and  was  the  guest  of  the  Massachusetts 
Society. 

Entertainment  of  the  General  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, Boston  Harbor,  on  steamer  "  J.  Putnam  Bradlee." 

Fifth  Annual  Dinner,  Hotel  Vendome. 

Sixth  Annual  Dinner,  Hotel  Brunswick. 

Seventh  Annual  Dinner,  Hotel  Brunswick. 

Smoke  Talk,  Young's  Hotel.  Rev.  Edward  G.  Porter,  guest 
of  the  Society.  Subject  of  Mr.  Porter's  address  was 
"  Earl  Percy's  Account  of  Things  in  Boston  at  the  Out- 
break of  the  Revolution." 

Eighth  Annual  Dinner  at  Hotel  Vendome.  Addresses  by 
Hon.  Hannis  Taylor,  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  and  Hon.  George  F. 
Hoar. 

Smoke    Talk,   Young's   Hotel.     Address  by  Mr.  Augustus 

Bedford  on  "  The  American  Flag." 
Smoke    Talk,   Young's    Hotel.      Address    by   John   Henry 
Westfall,  U.S.N,  (retired),  on  the  "Lost  Fleet  at  Samoa." 

Ninth  Annual  Dinner  at  Hotel  Somerset.  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Curtis  Guild,  Jr.,  guest  of  the  Society. 

Afternoon  Smoke  Talk,  Parker  House.  Address  by  Hon. 
Robert  S.  Rantoul. 

Smoke  Talk,  Young's  Hotel.  Address  by  Mr.  Desmond 
Fitzgerald  on  "  Venice  and  its  Palaces." 

Tenth  Annual  Dinner  at  Hotel  Brunswick.  Rev.  Thomas 
Edward  Green,  D.D.,  of  the  Iowa  Society,  guest  of  the 
Society. 

Eleventh  Annual  Dinner  at  Hotel  Somerset.  Hon.  Herbert 
Parker,  Attorney-General  of  Massachusetts,  and  Captain 
Richmond  Pearson  Hobson,  U. S.N. ,  guest?  of  the  Society. 


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